I am beginning my first django project and would like to know which method is best for creating a relationship between User & Company models.
Option 1 - User existing django user model and create a user profile model
Class UserProfile(models.Model):
user = models.OneToOneField(User)
company = models.ForeignKey(Company)
Option 2 - Create custom user model
Class MyUser(AbstractBaseUser):
"all of the required user data -- left off for brevity"
company = models.ForeignKey(Company)
I have no issue with the base user model, my concern is more related to performance IF the application grows to a larger scale. I realize option 1 requires an additional database hit; however, I like the flexibility of having a UserProfile which can be modified to include additional criteria.
Which option would you prefer, or is there a better way?
I have decided to create the UserProfile to give additional flexibility. While we don't know how the application will grow, we feel it is important to keep our domain as flexible as possible. Thank you for all of the feedback.
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