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Zambezi
Zambezi

Reputation: 777

How to extend Django Group and still use in Django User

I am looking to extend the functionality of Django's group, so I can have extra properties on the Group such as a url for the Group's homepage. Something like this:

class Organization(Group):
  url = models.CharField(max_length=100)

However when using this organization and adding it to a user (by using org.user_set.add(user)) I have no way of accessing the url field from the User. When I do user.groups.all() it shows the user is in a Group (not Organization) with the same name I set on my organization org. So how I do I add functionality to Group but keep it accessible from my user info?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 4821

Answers (1)

iskorum
iskorum

Reputation: 1137

You have two option;

1) New model;

class GroupProfile(models.Model):
    group = models.OneToOneField('auth.Group', unique=True)
    url = models.CharField(max_length=100)

2) Monkey Patch;

Group.add_to_class('url', models.CharField(max_length=100))

In second option you have to use app like south for db migration.

Upvotes: 6

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