Django related models and UpdateView fields - django

Question

I created a model (UserSettings) to extend django's User model through a OneToOneField (as recommended by the documentation):
class UserSettings(models.Model):
user = models.OneToOneField(User, primary_key=True)
subscribeToMails = models.BooleanField(default=True)
[...]
I wish to offer my users a way to edit some of their profile data, some of which is stored in the User model (the email address), and the rest in the UserSettings model. How may I do that?
I thought of two ways: adding another OneToOneField in the UserSettings model for the email address field; or overriding the UpdateView get_queryset() method (but I'm not sure how). Is there a best or recommended way to do it? So far here's how my view look:
class EditUser(UpdateView):
model = UserSettings
fields = ('emailVisible', 'subscribeToMails', 'mpPopupNotif',
'mpEmailNotif', 'avatar', 'quote', 'website')
template_name = 'user/edit.html'
def get_object(self):
return UserSettings.objects.get(user_id=self.request.user)
def get_success_url(self):
return reverse_lazy('user:edit')

Answer 1

Thanks for the replies! However, since I couldn't figure out how to make this work and thought using two tables eventually resulted in too much clutter to my taste, I finally went with the easier route and subclassed AbstractUser:
# models.py
class ForumUser(AbstractUser):
subscribeToMails = models.BooleanField(default=True)
[...]
# views.py
class EditUser(LoginRequiredMixin, UpdateView):
model = ForumUser
fields = ('email', 'emailVisible', 'subscribeToMails', 'mpPopupNotif',
'mpEmailNotif', 'avatar', 'quote', 'website')
template_name = 'user/edit.html'
success_url = reverse_lazy('forum:welcome')
def get_object(self):
return ForumUser.objects.get(username=self.request.user)
I only had to change my registration form:
# forms.py
class RegisterForm(UserCreationForm):
email = forms.EmailField(required=True)
class Meta:
model = ForumUser
fields = ('username', 'email', 'password1', 'password2')
def clean_email(self):
"Ensure registered emails are unique."
email = self.cleaned_data.get('email')
username = self.cleaned_data.get('username')
if email and ForumUser.objects.filter(email=email).exclude(
username=username).count():
raise forms.ValidationError('Email address already in use.')
return email
def clean_username(self):
"""
UserCreationForm method where mentions of the User model are replaced
by the custom AbstractUser model (here, ForumUser).
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/19353#no1
and https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/_modules/django/contrib/
auth/forms/#UserCreationForm
"""
username = self.cleaned_data["username"]
try:
ForumUser.objects.get(username=username)
except ForumUser.DoesNotExist:
return username
raise forms.ValidationError(
self.error_messages['duplicate_username'],
code='duplicate_username',
)

Answer 2

Use this solution:
mix both User and UserSettings in a form like this:
class EmployeeEditForm(forms.ModelForm):
#fields from User model that you want to edit
first_name = forms.CharField(required=False, label=_('First Name'))
last_name = forms.CharField(required=False, label=_('Last Name'))
class Meta:
model = UserSettings
fields = ('first_name', 'last_name', 'subscribeToMails')
You can access to User and UserSettings object in views.py like this:
user = request.user
usersettings = user.usersettings
Now you can edit User object like this:
user.first_name = request.POST['first_name']
user.last_name = request.POST['last_name']
user.save()
And edit UserSettings like this:
usersettings.subscribeToMails = request.POST['subscribeToMails']
usersettings.save()

Answer 3

Formsets is the best way to go about it.
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/forms/formsets/