Adding ForeignKey on self to User with add_to_class causes endless loop in the server

[Daniel Kvasnicka jr.]

Hi,
in my models.py I'm tring to add some fields to User with add_to_class
(so I can access them in admin). Everything works fine, only when I
try to add a ForeignKey on User itself, Django dev server gets in a
loop and has to be killed or it consumes every byte of memory and all
processor time.

I do it like this:
User.add_to_class('parent', models.ForeignKey('User', blank = True,
default = 0))

Anybody experienced something similar?

Thanks for every thought,
Dan

[Ben Ford]

I'm not sure about the mechanics of add_to_class, but usually a self referential ForeignKey should look like:
    models.ForeignKey('self', ......)
Have you tried it like this?
Ben

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Ben Ford
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[Daniel Kvasnicka jr.]

On Jul 31, 9:30 am, "Ben Ford" <ben.for...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure about the mechanics of add_to_class, but usually a self
> referential ForeignKey should look like:
> models.ForeignKey('self', ......)
> Have you tried it like this?

Yes I have, and unfortunately it does the same.

Cheers,
Dan