How to access extended User attributes in django template - django

Question

I am trying to access extended field of User model in Django template but it doesn't work, there are my files:
models.py:
class Author(models.Model):
user = models.OneToOneField(User, related_name='user', on_delete=models.SET_NULL, null=True)
bio = models.TextField(
max_length=1400, help_text="Enter author biography.")
def __str__(self):
return self.user.username
def create_profile(sender, **kwargs):
user = kwargs["instance"]
if kwargs["created"]:
user_profile = Author(user=user, bio='my bio')
user_profile.save()
post_save.connect(create_profile, sender=User)
template:
{% extends "base_generic.html" %}
{% block title %}
<title>Author {{user}}</title>
{% endblock %}
{% block content %}
<h1>{{user}}</h1>
<h2>Bio:</h2>
<p>{{user.author.bio}}</p>
<div>
{%for item in user.author.blogs_set.all%}
<p>{{item.title}}</p>
<hr>
{%endfor%}
</div>
{% endblock %}
views:
class UserDetailView(generic.DetailView):
model = User
template_name = 'blogapp/user_detail.html'
I want to get access to the bio field through user.author.bio but nothing displays I have also tried user.bio is there any tricky way to get access to this field?

Answer 1

You set the related_name to:
class Author(models.Model):
user = models.OneToOneField(
User,
related_name='user',
on_delete=models.SET_NULL, null=True
)
But the related_name is the name to access the related Author from a User object (so the name of the relation in reverse). You thus should set it to author (or leave it blank), like:
class Author(models.Model):
user = models.OneToOneField(
User,
related_name='author',
on_delete=models.SET_NULL, null=True
)
By setting it to user, you could have accessed the Author object with user.user, but I strongly advise not to do this, since in the end, it will only result in code that is hard to understand. For Django it of course does not matter (given no two relations originating from User have the same name), but for programmers, it gives a wrong impression.