Django Many-to-Many (m2m) Relation to same model

Question

I\'d like to create a many-to-many relationship from and to a user class object.

I have something like this:

class MyUser(models.Model):
    ...
             


        

Answer 1

If you use self or MyUser you will get a NameError in both cases. You should write "self" as string. See the example below:

class MyUser(models.Model):
    ...
    blocked_users = models.ManyToManyField("self", blank=True, null=True)

And do not forget to set the symmetrical attribute to False if the relationship is not symmetrical.

For further details check: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/ref/models/fields/#django.db.models.ManyToManyField