Michael,
Your opinion on this makes sense and in the end I will probably just
go with the wrapper approach, since it probably won't make that much
of a difference anyways. My biggest qualm is that I'm trying to put
together a strong foundation for the projects I'm working on and feel
like this is
On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 13:06 -0800, Michael Irani wrote:
> I was wondering if it's possible to add a ManyToManyField onto a
> prebuilt Django model such as User... I know that it would look like
> this if I were to have created the model myself:
> class User(models.Model):
> watch = models.M
Michael;
Think of it this way: the auth model is just one way to provide
authentication into your architecture. It wouldn't make much sense to
have too much more information about the person inside of this model.
There is an effort to try to be able to extend models, but as far as I
know it has b
One thing I dislike about the approach that's being pushed by the
community, which is to have a one-to-one relationship between
auth.User and your own 'Profile' model (or whatever you want to call
it) adding all the functionality and relationships to the user-created
Model is a bit much. I mean ye
Evert, the situation is that I was trying to use the auth.User as my
model and wanted to have it point to itself. Thereby not having my own
model at all.
I was curious as well about being able to subclass a prebuilt model,
but from the reactions I've gotten towards this, it doesn't seem to be
an
> I was wondering if it's possible to add a ManyToManyField onto a
> prebuilt Django model such as User... I know that it would look like
> this if I were to have created the model myself:
> class User(models.Model):
> watch = models.ManyToManyField('self', null=True, blank=True)
>
> I'm unsu
The amazing thing about Django contrib is that, in general, it uses
the same features as are available to you in your models. So there is
no reason that you need to even install the auth system. You could
copy the code out of django.contrib.auth and customize it as you see
fit. The only thing is t
Yep here's a good article on it:
http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2006/jun/06/django-tips-extending-user-model/
On Mar 4, 5:36 pm, Michael Irani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I got some help on IRC and here's the conclusion. There is no way to
> add that mapping from auth.User to itself without hack
I got some help on IRC and here's the conclusion. There is no way to
add that mapping from auth.User to itself without hacking the django
code, so what needs to happen is that I add a wrapper Model such as
'Profile' and add the ManyToManyField to 'Profile'. Thereby the
mappings will happen within
I was wondering if it's possible to add a ManyToManyField onto a
prebuilt Django model such as User... I know that it would look like
this if I were to have created the model myself:
class User(models.Model):
watch = models.ManyToManyField('self', null=True, blank=True)
I'm unsure how to ad
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