Django: accessing one-to-one field in templates

Question

I have model UserProfile containing a OneToOneField on a class called Info:

class UserProfile(models.Model):
    user = models.OneToOneField(User, primary_key=True)
    info = models.OneToOneField(Info, null = True, blank= True)

in my template I have access to the profile with

{{user.get_profile}}

but how to access Info? I have tried

{{user.get_profile.info.photo.url}}

without success.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6676134/accessing-django-onetoonefield-in-templates — Lee Kang, Oct 09 '13 at 04:27

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

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You can't do that.

user.get_profile()

is a method and it gets executed when accessed as

{{user.get_profile}}

and not when you try to access more attributes of profile like {{user.get_profile.attr1}}

The way around is to send the profile object from the view. And if you want to have it in many view, you should make it a TemplateContextProcessor.

There is also another way of extending the User model with an attribute profile that is a @property that does the same as get_profile which you can do as I have described earlier.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

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answered Dec 07 '10 at 14:22

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A downvote for a right answer and no explanation? A first for me on Stackoverflow. :( – lprsd Dec 08 '10 at 07:59

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