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I have an User object and a Connection object to manage connections between users.

class User:
 username = models.CharField(max_length=100,)

and

class Connection:
 user = models.ForeignKey(User)
 friend = models.ManyToManyField('self', related_name="_friends", symmetrical=True)
 followers = models.ManyToManyField('self', related_name="_followers", symmetrical=False)
 following = models.ManyToManyField('self', related_name="_following", symmetrical=False)

I'm not sure how to add friends in this modeling.

user.connection_set._friends.add(target) -> does this work?

Can someone help me with this.

Use a OneToOne (i guess your User has only one Connection with multiple followers, friends etc?)

If you use a FK or m2m field you need one more step to find which Connection you will use (something like User.objects.get(XXXX).connection.get(XXXX)

class User:
 username = models.CharField(max_length=100,)

class Connection:
 user = models.OneToOneField(User)
 friend = models.ManyToManyField('self', related_name="_friends", symmetrical=True)
 followers = models.ManyToManyField('self', related_name="_followers", symmetrical=False)
 following = models.ManyToManyField('self', related_name="_following", symmetrical=False)


user = User.objects.last()
user_to_add = User.objects.first()
user.connection.followers.add(user_to_add)