How to join user profile to user topics in Django? - django

Question

In Django 1.7, I am trying to make a user panel in which userprofile info (like avatar, country, etc.) are to be displayed along with their topics. Here is the view:
def topic(request, topic_id):
"""Listing of posts in a thread."""
posts = Post.objects.select_related('creator') \
.filter(topic=topic_id).order_by("created")
posts = mk_paginator(request, posts, DJANGO_SIMPLE_FORUM_REPLIES_PER_PAGE)
topic = Topic.objects.get(pk=topic_id)
topic.visits += 1
topic.save()
return render_to_response("myforum/topic.html", add_csrf(request, posts=posts, pk=topic_id,
topic=topic), context_instance=RequestContext(request))
The Topic model is:
class Topic(models.Model):
title = models.CharField(max_length=100)
description = models.TextField(max_length=10000, null=True)
forum = models.ForeignKey(Forum)
created = models.DateTimeField()
creator = models.ForeignKey(User, blank=True, null=True)
visits = models.IntegerField(default = 0)
And the UserProfile model:
class UserProfile(models.Model):
username = models.OneToOneField(User)
name = models.CharField(max_length=30, blank=True)
city = models.CharField(max_length=30, blank=True)
country = models.CharField(
max_length=20, choices= COUTNRY_CHOICES, blank=True)
avatar = ImageWithThumbsField(), upload_to='images', sizes=((32,32),(150,150),(200,200)), blank=True)
created_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True, blank=True)
updated_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True, blank=True)
However, when in topic.html I try to capture the userprofile info in template, e.g.
{{topic.creator.userprofile.name}}
or
{{topic.creator.userprofile.city}}
nothing is displayed. This happens for all fields that I try to fetch from UserProfile model, despite the fact that in the database the userprofile row for the user is not empty and I can get fields in other views.
I have been stuck on this for days so really appreciate your help.
Update: here is add_csrf, in case it might be relevant
def add_csrf(request, ** kwargs):
d = dict(user=request.user, ** kwargs)
d.update(csrf(request))
return d