Django: User Profile in 1.9

Question

RELATED: get user profile in django

The above shows how to get user profile but i read that the accepted answer method is deprecated.

How would I create/get/use user profile in django 1.9?

Answer 1

models.py

from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.db.models.signals import post_save

class UserProfile(models.Model):
    user = models.OneToOneField(User)
    address = models.TextField()
    ......


def create_user_profile(sender, instance, created, **kwargs):
    if created:
        UserProfile.objects.create(user=instance)

post_save.connect(create_user_profile, sender=User)

The above code will create a UserProfile record whenever a new user is created on User table. Then you can access the profile details like,

address = request.user.profile.address

Answer 2

get_profile() method returned additional informations about User. Currently, these informations can be stored in Custom User Model or in a seperate model which is related to User Model. You can do that by simply adding one2one relation with User model to your custom User model, or by subclassing the AbstructUserBase model.

Subclassing User Model example:

class MyUser(AbstractBaseUser):
    email = models.EmailField(
        verbose_name='email address',
        max_length=255,
        unique=True,
    )
    date_of_birth = models.DateField()
    ...

One2One Relation with User model example:

from django.contrib.auth.models import User

class Employee(models.Model):
    user = models.OneToOneField(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    department = models.CharField(max_length=100)