With Django 1.5 and the introduction of custom user models the AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE became deprecated. In my existing Django application I use the User model and I also have a Profile model with a foreign key to the User and store other stuff about the user in the profile. Currently using AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE and this is set to 'app.profile'.
So obviously, my code tends to do lots of user.get_profile() and this now needs to go away.
Now, I could create a new custom user model (by just having my profile model extend User) but then in all other places where I currently have a foreign key to a user will need to be changed also... so this would be a large migration in my live service.
Is there any way - and with no model migration - and only by creating/overriding the get_profile() function with something like my_user.userprofile_set.all()[0]) somewhere?
Anyone out there that has gone down this path and can share ideas or experiences?
If I where to do this service again now - would obviously not go this way but with a semi-large live production system I am open for short-cuts :-)