Is it okay to have a hasOne relation, where some records DON'T have one? --psybear

Hey everybody

I have just split up my User model into a User and a UserProfile
model, because I wanted to prevent my User model from having too much
fields (address data, profile data etc.). So now my User hasOne
UserProfile.

But there are some users that DON'T have a UserProfile - these are
mainly system users (like "guest") that don't actually represent a
real person.

My question is: is this OK? Because when using $scaffold, the hasOne
relationships is displayed in any case whether there is a UserProfile
or not, i.e. when there's no UserProfile, the hasOne table is just
displayed without data. So I'm just wondering whether there's a need
that every hasOne relationship actually DOES HAVE a related record? Or
can I just forget about this "issue"? :-)

Thanks for information
Josh

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