How to create/update user profile after successful Pow registration & login?

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Hi all,
I have multiple roles to implement and I plan to have multiple tables to create/manage user profiles for each role.

Whats the best way to create a mapping between users table and other profile tables? Btw, I am using Pow for authentication. How do I create/update user profile(based on role) once registration/login is successful for the corresponding user? Does Pow provide any mechanism to manage profile info after successful registration/login?

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Hi all, any inputs/suggestions on this? Whats the best way to handle user profiles and the relation with users table? Does Pow provide a mechanism to create/fetch/update user profile info based on current_user?

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What I do is using Plugs.

The idea is when user get authenticated through the login page they will be redirected for example on a profile page (that you have to create yourself of course, but the following can works with the home page as well).

  • You need a Plug that ensures a profile exists for the current_user before accessing the above said page. If not, you redirect the user on a page where he will fill a form and complete his registration.
    I’m used to call this page controller MyApp.AccountController or MyApp.ProfileController. In fact I have often the both: the fisrt map to User schema and the last to Profile schema.

  • Now to load the profile into @current_user you can have a look to this reply that helped me.

I hope it helps a bit…

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Thanks, Kurisu. I will check this out. However, I am using backend only for APIs. So, just wondering how to create/fetch/update user profile entry in database after Pow registration/login based on current_user. Also, I have multiple roles and how to link them to users table? Does Pow provide a way to handle this kind of scenario?

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Unfortunately you’ll have to handle this on your own depending on your scenario.

There are some Pow guides that you may find useful though:

There is a thread I read long time ago on how to design user table and profile infos on the forum but I’m not finding it right now…

If I find it I will post it here. It was discussed many ways to store roles and account infos. For example One could even use an ecto migration :map type to store them in the user table but it is not perfomant if you’re planning running queries against it…

In my case what I do is just adding a profile table per role and keep a role field in the user table. But this works only because i have few roles and each user has just one role. So if I have for example the roles admin, client, author I will have the profile tables of the same names to store role specific infos. If a role does not need specific additionnal infos apart from the common infos stored in the user table I won’t create a profile table for it. If another table need a user with a specific role as reference to a foreign_key, I will also need a profile table. for example an author_id for a blog post.

For now at least this works for my projects needs…