django extending user model depending on user's role

Question

I need to have 2 user roles in my project: client and employer

Question number one: There is an option called 'groups' in Django admin panel.Is it the same stuff like user roles?

Question number 2:

Let's say that I need to add custom field like company_name to users with role customer I have read some question like this Extending the User model with custom fields in Django And I got from that I should use a property called OneToOneField(User) But still I still confused. So how can I add this custon field company_name in model?

`Still didn't get it right` - can you elaborate on that? – Jens Astrup Mar 18 '17 at 03:05 — Jens Astrup, Mar 18 '17 at 03:05

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 18 '17 at 15:51

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Answer to Q1: Groups are are for controlling the Admin interface access, with different permissions. If you try creating a group you will see that you can select permissions as well for that particular group. So I would say it is not what you want. But if you create groups without permissions you can use for your purpose as well.

Answer to Q2: Please refer to documentation for more details and examples. Here is just a basic example. For your case you need to create new model which has one to one relation to you auth user model and extends more fields as you want, for example:

USER_TYPE = {0: 'Client', 1: 'Employer'}

class MySpecialUser(models.Model):
  user = models.OneToOneField(
    settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL,
    on_delete=models.CASCADE,
  )
  type = models.IntegerField(choices=USER_TYPE.items())
  # used only for Client type
  customer_name - models.CharField(..., null=True)

answered Mar 18 '17 at 15:51

Gagik Sukiasyan

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can you tell me line by line how your example works? – user2950593 Mar 19 '17 at 14:37
I didn't gave you full working example, and its better you ask which part is not clear, i will try to improve the answer. For more exhaustive examples please refer to tutorials. – Gagik Sukiasyan Mar 19 '17 at 14:41
I don't really get this lines: # used only for Client type customer_name - models.CharField(..., null=True) – user2950593 Mar 19 '17 at 14:49
how it will be used only for Client type? which line does that? – user2950593 Mar 19 '17 at 14:49
Sorry for not being clear. I mean in you case you set value for customer_name only for Client type users for employees you can leave that field to be Null. – Gagik Sukiasyan Mar 19 '17 at 15:03

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