Add support for multiple profile modules

[david@…]

I would like to change AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE to AUTH_PROFILE_MODULES. This would allow a project that has multiple optional applications to have a per-application profile. The get_profile() in django.contrib.auth would need to be updated to iterate through all of the supplied modules and combine all of the returned profile items as one comprehensive profile. I'm not familiar with the format of what model._default_manager.get(useridexact=self.id) would return, so I'm not sure this would be possible without further modifications there.

[david@…]

It seems model._default_manager.get(useridexact=self.id) returns a QuerySet? If this is the case, is it possible to manipulate a QuerySet and add arbitrary fields? Or, can get_profile() be modified to return a collection of them? If the 2nd option is the only way, this change would need to happen before version 1 as it would break compatibility.

[david@…]

After some discussion on IRC, I've decided to pursue a more generic approach. Once I have something put together, I'll post back with the results.

[itsnotvalid]

Just found myself in this situation but apparently there were no fix or I missed something along the way.

[James Bennett]

Unless you have an actual proposal, including code, the appropriate thing is for this ticket to stay closed. And if you have such a proposal, the appropriate thing is to take it to the dev list for discussion. And since the original description of the ticket involves a change that's backwards-incompatible we can't make that change while maintaining a guarantee of backward compatibility in 1.x Django releases, so at any rate this ticket stays closed.