How to create a user profile with different views in django? - django

Question

I've two type of users: Students and Institutions.
Both can login in the website and they have different profiles views.
I'd like to use "http://example.com/accounts/" for both types of users but running different logics and displaying different templates for each one.
For example, Students when they go to their profile they can view/modify their attributes as what are they studying, interested courses.. etc. On the other side, the institution users can view/modify attributes of their own model as institution information.
Institution User Type:
class InstitutionProfile(models.Model):
user = models.OneToOneField(User, related_name='client')
gender = models.CharField(max_length=40, choices=GENDERS_TYPES, blank=True)
#Contact Information
location = models.ManyToManyField(Location)
address = models.CharField(max_length=254, blank=True)
zipcode = models.CharField(max_length=56, blank=True)
phone = models.CharField(max_length=56, blank=True)
def __unicode__(self):
return '%s' % format(self.user)
Student User Type:
class StudentProfile(models.Model):
user = models.OneToOneField(User, related_name='profile')
about_me = models.TextField(null=True, blank=True)
gender = models.CharField(max_length=40, choices=GENDERS_TYPES, blank=True)
birth = models.DateTimeField(blank=True, null=True)
#Contact Information
location = models.ManyToManyField(Location, related_name='homecountry')
address = models.CharField(max_length=254, blank=True)
zipcode = models.CharField(max_length=56, blank=True)
phone = models.CharField(max_length=56, blank=True)
#Interested
countries_interested = models.ManyToManyField(Location, blank=True, related_name='countries interested')
areas_interested = models.ManyToManyField(StudyArea, blank=True)
levels_interested = models.ManyToManyField(StudyLevel, blank=True)
languages_interested= models.ManyToManyField(LanguageCourse, blank=True)
def __unicode__(self):
return '%s' % format(self.user)
view.py
class InstitutionProfileDetailView(DetailView):
model = get_user_model()
slug_field = "username"
template_name = "account/institution_profile.html"
def get_object(self, queryset=None):
user = super(InstitutionProfileDetailView, self).get_object(queryset)
InstitutionProfile.objects.get_or_create(user=user)
return user
class StudentProfileDetailView(DetailView):
model = get_user_model()
slug_field = "username"
template_name = "account/student_profile.html"
def get_object(self, queryset=None):
user = super(StudentProfileDetailView, self).get_object(queryset)
StudentProfile.objects.get_or_create(user=user)
return user
What is the best solution for having different views with 2 different type of users?

Answer 1

You can use an unified view and return different views from that according to your logic -
def accounts_view(request):
if request.user.is_student(): # <-- check with your logic, is_student() is a stub
return StudentProfileDetailView.as_view()
elif request.user.is_institute():
return InstitutionProfileDetailView.as_view()
And point accounts/ to accounts_view.