Self-referential User relationship

[thinkwell]

Hello,

I have to do a bit of a code rewrite and I want to measure twice and cut once with this.

I need to store use extra information about each user, so I'm creating a profile. And each user can follow other users, so I create a ManyToMany field referencing the User model, and not "self" correct?

Like so:

 class Profile(models.Model):
   """Storing extra info about user"""
   name = models.OneToOneField(User, related_name='profile')
   moreinfo = models.TextField()
 
   friends = models.ManyToManyField(User, blank=True, through='Relationship',
   symmetrical=False,
   related_name='relationship')
 
 
 class Relationship(models.Model):
   from_user = models.ForeignKey(User, related_name='from_user')
   to_user = models.ForeignKey(User, related_name='to_user')
   rtype = models.TextField()
   moreinfo = models.TextField(null=True, blank=True)
 
 class Meta:
   unique_together = ('from_user', 'to_user')



Rather than like so:



 class Profile(models.Model):
   """Storing extra info about user"""
   name = models.OneToOneField(User, related_name='profile')
   moreinfo = models.TextField()
 
   friends = models.ManyToManyField(self, blank=True, through='Relationship',
   symmetrical=False,
   related_name='relationship')
 
 
 class Relationship(models.Model):
   from_user = models.ForeignKey(Profile, related_name='from_user')
   to_user = models.ForeignKey(Profile, related_name='to_user')
   rtype = models.TextField()
   moreinfo = models.TextField(null=True, blank=True)
 
 class Meta:
   unique_together = ('from_user', 'to_user')

[thinkwell]

Ok, I suppose never mind! I found this [django-friendship](https://github.com/revsys/django-friendship/) module and in reading their model layout, I'll be able to get done what I need to do.