Get a related profile via request.user in django 1.8+

Question

I have a Profile model:

class Profile(models.Model):
    user = models.OneToOneField(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, related_name="profile_user")
    preferred_name = models.CharField()
    # more profile fields

that I want to access in a template via the user: {{request.user}}

However previous answers to this question use a method that was removed in 1.7:

"These features have reached the end of their deprecation cycle and so have been removed in Django 1.7:

The AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE setting, and the get_profile() method on the User."

The docs now say I should just do this, but it doesn't return anything:

{{request.user.profile.profile_field_i_want}}

the only difference I can see between the example and my profile model is that I use settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL but the example uses User as the OneToOne.

However if I: print(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL) the result is auth.User

I also confirmed that the users actually have profiles.

How do I access a user's related profile via request.user?

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 23 '15 at 20:11

To access user profile from User model, you need to use related_name that was passed as argument in OneToOneField inside Profile model.

So to call preferred_name you need to do:

{{ request.user.profile_user.preferred_name }}

because you've provided 'profile_user' as related_name

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 23 '15 at 20:10

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Your related_name is "profile_user", do you should use that.

{{request.user.profile_user.profile_field_i_want}}

I must say, though, I don't know why you've set that attribute: the default value of *profile" makes much more sense.

answered Aug 23 '15 at 20:10

Daniel Roseman

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Thanks for the critique. I didn't realize what that was for and it must have been vestigial from following a tutorial. – 43Tesseracts Aug 23 '15 at 20:46

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 08 '16 at 14:03

You can just relate your profile name's id (the model class) with the User model's id like this:

    user = User.objects.get(id=request.user.id)  
    profile = Profile.objects.filter(user=user).get()  
    instance = profile

Then call the profile attributes as so:

    {{ profile.phone_number }}

Get a related profile via request.user in django 1.8+

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