What I want to do :

Display a phone book from Django User model extended with a Profile model related to several models

What I have done :

Of course, I've read Django documentation (4.1)

• I have my classic Django User model

• I have created a "Profile" model to extend the User model via a OneToOne relationship (here simplified) :

class Profile(models.Model):
        
    user = models.OneToOneField(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    entity = models.ForeignKey(Entity, null=True, blank=True, on_delete=models.CASCADE) 


    class Meta:
        ordering = ['entity__name', 'user__last_name']

    def __str__(self):
        return self.user.first_name   " "   self.user.last_name
        
@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()

• I have created an "Entity" model (more or less the company where people work) (here simplified) :

class Entity(CommonFieldsUUID):

    name = models.CharField(max_length=100, unique=True, null=False, default="N.C.")
    alias = models.CharField(max_length=25, unique=True, null=False, default="N.C.")
    
    class Meta:
        verbose_name = "Entity"
        verbose_name_plural = "Entities"

    def __str__(self):
        return self.alias

• Here is my views.py :

from .models import User
from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.template import loader


def phonebook(request):
    user = User.objects.filter(is_active=True).values('first_name','last_name','email','profile__entity','profile__pro_ext','profile__pro_gsm','profile__pro_trigram','profile__location')
    
    template = loader.get_template('phonebook/phonebook.html')
    context = {
        'colHeaders': ['Firstname LASTNAME',
                       'Entity',
                       'Extension',
                       'Mobile',
                       'Email',
                       'Initials',
                       'Location'],
        'user': user,
    }
    return HttpResponse(template.render(context, request))

• Here is my template phonebook.html :

{% extends "main/datatables.html" %}

<!-- TABLE TITLE -->
{% block tableTitle %}Phonebook{% endblock %}

<!-- TABLE HEADER -->
{% block tableHeader %}
    {% if colHeaders %}
        {% for header in colHeaders %}
            <th>{{header}}</th>
        {% endfor %}
    {% else %}
        <p>No results</p>
    {% endif %}
{% endblock %}

<!-- TABLE BODY -->
{% block tableBody %}
    {% if user %}
        {% for person in user %}
        <tr>
            <td>{{person.first_name}} {{person.last_name}}</td>
            <td>{{person.profile__entity}}</td>
            <td>{{person.profile__pro_ext}}</td>
            <td>{{person.profile__pro_gsm}}</td>
            <td>{{person.email}}</td>
            <td>{{person.profile__pro_trigram}}</td>
            <td>{{person.profile__location}}</td>
        </tr>  
        {% endfor %}
    {% else %}
        <p>Pas de données.</p>
    {% endif %}
{% endblock %}

<!-- TABLE FOOTER -->
{% block tableFooter %}
    {% if colHeaders %}
        {% for header in colHeaders %}
            <th>{{header}}</th>
        {% endfor %}
    {% else %}
        <p>No results</p>
    {% endif %}
{% endblock %}

Problem :

{{person.profile__entity}}

returns the id of the entity but I'm trying to display the name or alias of the Entity model...

What I've tried :

1. Reading the Django doc : but as I am not sure of the methods involved, I probably can't find the right section

2. Dumb things and taking chances in views.py and template like :

   1. {{person.profile__entity_name}}
      

   2. {{person.profile__entity.name}}
      

   3. {{person.profile__entity_entity__name}}
      

3. Using an approach like with DRF :

   entity = serializers.SlugRelatedField(
           many=False,
           read_only=True,
           slug_field='entity'
       )
   

4. Tried something like this : https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/topics/serialization/ but think that I probably missed some steps if it's the right way to do it.

5. Read posts about issues that sound like mine :

   1. How to access a field from an extended user in Django?

   2. Reverse query on django extended user profile

   3. ...

CodePudding user response：

When using values() searching for a foreignKey returns only the id of the object not the object itself. Add profile__entity__name to your queryset in the views to retrieve the name of the entity.