Django Rest Framework Create and Update user profile

Question

I am building a DRF project and have enabled user authentication and registration using django-allauth and django-rest-auth. A new user is registered by providing username, email, password1 and password 2.

I want to create a user profile when a user is created, however he would have to enter anything related to profile while registration. User can edit this profile afterwards, whenever he wants. My user profile model:

class Profile(models.Model):
    user = models.OneToOneField(User, blank=True, on_delete=models.CASCADE, )
    name = models.CharField(max_length=50, blank=True, )
    age = models.IntegerField(blank=True, )
    ...
    ...

and in serializers.py I have:

class ProfileSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = Profile
        fields = '__all__'

I saw some posts which added following methods to Profile model:

@receiver(post_save, sender=User)
def create_user_profile(sender, instance, created, **kwargs):
    if created:
        Profile.objects.create(user=instance)

@receiver(post_save, sender=User)
def save_user_profile(sender, instance, **kwargs):
    instance.profile.save()

with them, user was created but not the profile, and I got error IntegrityError: (1048, "Column 'age' cannot be null")

What is the most elegant way of creating, and updating such a profile?

about that error age cannot be null, may be you can do in age property, null = True instead of blank = True — anupam691997, Apr 16 '18 at 11:41
Thanks for your comment, I tried your suggestion but it then throws No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it error, however profile and user both are created — Thinker, Apr 16 '18 at 11:55
Which also I fixed by adding EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend' — Thinker, Apr 16 '18 at 11:57

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 02 '22 at 06:29

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to eliminate IntegrityError change

from :

user = models.OneToOneField(User, blank=True, on_delete=models.CASCADE, )

to:

user = models.ForeignKey(User, blank=True, on_delete=models.CASCADE, )

however, i don't know if that relationship suit your specification

edited Dec 02 '22 at 06:29

Usitha Indeewara

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answered Nov 29 '22 at 11:15

Tamar

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Django Rest Framework Create and Update user profile

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