Question

This is very basic, but I can’t find anything on it. I have a user profile defined in the following way:

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

User.profile = property(lambda u: UserProfile.objects.get_or_create(user=u)[0])

Now how do I set the properties?

Answer 1

First off. Monkey-patching User is not the correct approach. Set AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE = 'yourapp.UserInfo' in settings.py, and then you can use user_instance.get_profile() automatically to get the profile.

So, then to modify the profile you just do:

profile = user.get_profile()
profile.some_field = 'some value'
profile.save()