Django snippets: User post_save signal to auto create 'admin' profile

User post_save signal to auto create 'admin' profile

# SIGNALS AND LISTENERS
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.db.models import signals
from django.dispatch import dispatcher

# User
def user_post_save(sender, instance, signal, *args, **kwargs):
    # Creates user profile
    profile, new = UserProfile.objects.get_or_create(user=instance)

dispatcher.connect(user_post_save, signal=signals.post_save, sender=User)

How to use:

puts this code at the end of the models.py file who haves the User Profile class declared;
verify if your User Profile class has the name 'UserProfile'. If not, change the code to the right name.

About: this snippet makes the ORM create a profile each time an user is created (or updated, if the user profile lost), including 'admin' user.

Author:: marinho
Posted:: December 8, 2007
Language:: Python
Tags:: admin user userprofile
Score:: 8 (after 8 ratings)

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JoshuaJenkins (on November 11, 2008):

This is no longer valid as the way dispatcher works has been updated.

Any shot at an update?

sasha (on November 12, 2008):

For Django 1.0:

def user_post_save(sender, instance, **kwargs):
    profile, new = UserProfile.objects.get_or_create(user=instance)

models.signals.post_save.connect(user_post_save, sender=User)