Django: Issues with extending User model

Question

I'm trying to add fields to the User model and add them to the admin page. There is a recommended method in the django docs here:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/#storing-additional-information-about-users

So, I created a OneToOne field for my new model:

from django.contrib.auth.models import User

class UserProfile(models.Model):
    user = models.OneToOneField(User)
    designs = models.ManyToManyField('Design', blank=True)
    prints = models.ManyToManyField('Print', blank=True)
    rating = models.IntegerField(null=True, blank=True)
    reliability = models.IntegerField(null=True, blank=True)
    av_lead_time = models.IntegerField(null=True, blank=True)

Added an AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE to settings.py:

AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE = 'website.UserProfile'

Tried to add the UserProfile fields to the admin page:

from django.contrib import admin
from django.contrib.auth.admin import UserAdmin
from website.models import UserProfile
from django.contrib.auth.models import User

# Define an inline admin descriptor for UserProfile model
# which acts a bit like a singleton
class UserProfileInline(admin.StackedInline):
    model = UserProfile
    can_delete = False
    verbose_name_plural = 'profile'

# Define a new User admin
class UserAdmin(UserAdmin):
    inlines = (UserProfileInline, )

# Re-register UserAdmin
admin.site.unregister(User)
admin.site.register(User, UserAdmin)

Now, when I try to access a registered user via the admin menu, I get:

Caught DoesNotExist while rendering: User matching query does not exist.
In template /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/contrib/admin/templates/admin/includes/fieldset.html, error at line 19
19            {{ field.field }}

And when I try to add a new user via the admin menu, I get:

Caught DoesNotExist while rendering: User matching query does not exist.
In template /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/contrib/admin/templates/admin/includes/fieldset.html, error at line 19
19            {{ field.field }}

Why doesn't it recognise that particular field?

Answer 1

Edit: After looking on the full error message I can see the error is not solely related to extending User. The error happens when rendering checkboxes and corresponding labels that are used to assign prints to UserProfile you are editing/adding. Django admin is calling Print.__unicode__ for rendering label for each Print instance, which in turn access (on line 33 of /threedee/website/models.py) the Print's "printer" attribute which is a foreign key to User. And for some reason one of the Prints does have invalid printer value which doesn't point to any User.

Can't really tell what is really happening here without seeing the Print model, I recommend you checking the Print database table (should be named website_print) and find if there is anything unusual (are you using PostgreSQL?). If you are not having any important data there, truncating whole Print table should do the trick.

This is my old answer which you should still follow but it's not related to the error you are experiencing:

I would just comment on others answers but there doesn't seem to be a way of doing that for me. You need to combine both Alexey Sidorov's and Like it's answers:

First use django shell to create UserProfile instances for existing users - just run commads provided by Like it's answer in the shell (python manage.py shell).

After that you should setup signal that will automatically create UserProfile for each new user according to answer from alexey-sidorov.

Answer 2

Add this to models.py, after UserProfile class.

      from django.db.models.signals import post_save  
      def create_user_profile(sender, instance, created, **kwargs):
          if created:
              UserProfile.objects.create(user=instance)

      post_save.connect(create_user_profile, sender=User)

more info https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/#storing-additional-information-about-users