Opened 18 years ago

Closed 17 years ago

#3548 closed (wontfix)

add a direct mapping when using ForeignKey fields with unique=True in place of the deprecated OneToOneField

Reported by: mrmachine <real dot human at mrmachine dot net> Owned by: nobody
Component: Database layer (models, ORM) Version: dev
Severity: Keywords: 121-rewrite
Cc: real.human@… Triage Stage: Design decision needed
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

OneToOneField sets up a direct mapping to the related object in the ORM, e.g. when relating Profile in your app to User in contrib.auth, you can access the profile with u.profile. as OneToOneField has a few issues and is likely going away soon, could we change ForeignKey to add a similar user friendly mapping when unique=True is specified, to save having to do something like u.profile_set.all()[0].

when only using one model to extend User, you can use the AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE setting and the User.get_profile() method, but this is specific to User, and indicates the extending model is a "profile", and can only be used with one extension of a model. for example, it may be possible to have multiple apps within a project, which all share common users, but each has specific extensions of User specific to their purpose. it's also possible to want to extend other models besides User with a OneToOne relation. in those cases, the direct mapping above would come in handy. e.g. u.blog_profile, u.intranet_profile, etc.

Change History (3)

comment:1 by Simon G. <dev@…>, 18 years ago

Component: UncategorizedDatabase wrapper
Owner: changed from Jacob to Adrian Holovaty
Triage Stage: UnreviewedDesign decision needed

comment:3 by Jacob, 17 years ago

Keywords: 121-rewrite added; OneToOne ForeignKey unique direct mapping ORM removed
Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed

We're not going to do this exactly -- making OneToOne work correctly is a better approach.

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