Develop Reference

Why django form input is not being saved in database?

I created a form which will take input and save input values in database(mysql). My forms.py
class postcreation(forms.Form):
post_title = forms.CharField(max_length=200, widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'name':'post_title'}))
post_name = forms.CharField(max_length=200, widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'name':'post_name'}))
post_post = forms.CharField(widget=forms.Textarea(attrs={'name':'post_post'}))
My models.py
class postdata(models.Model):
title = models.CharField(max_length=200)
name = models.ForeignKey(userdata, on_delete='CASECADE')
post = models.TextField()
def __str__(self):
return self.title
At first I had not used the 'attr' value. It didn't work. I saw a stackoverflow answer which says that I should. Still no luck.
My views.py
def postinput(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
form = postcreation(request.POST)
if form.is_valid():
inputpost = postdata(title=request.POST['post_title'], name=request.POST['post_name'], post=request.POST['post_post'])
inputpost.save()
return redirect('index')
else:
form = postcreation()
context = { 'form': form }
return render(request, 'firstapp/postinput.html', context)
html template
<form method="POST" action="{% url 'index' %}">
{% csrf_token %}
{{ form }}
<button type="submit">Post</button>
</form>
I was trying to get input through form and save it to database. But I was not being able to do so. I cannot understand why. I was going through some of the tutorials and some stackoverflow questions. It still doesn't work. Thanks for your help.

You can get the values from the validated form instead of the request directly, like this:
# . . .
if form.is_valid()
inputpost = postdata(title=form.cleaned_data.get('title'),
name=form.cleaned_data.get('name'),
post=form.cleaned_data.get('post'))
# . . .
Since postdata.name is a userdata object, you need to point it to one. For example, doing something like this
if form.is_valid()
inputpost = postdata(title=form.cleaned_data.get('title'),
post=form.cleaned_data.get('post'))
name=form.cleaned_data.get('name')
inputpost.name = userdata.objects.get(name=name) # or something similar,
# depending on what exactly
#`userdata` is and how
# to get the relevant instance.
inputpost.save()
I am not sure exactly how to fetch the userdata post, since that depends on the rest of your code, but it's something like that.
It might also be the case that you want to create a new userdata object instead. That would be something like:
# . . .
name=form.cleaned_data.get('name')
ud = userdata(name=name)
ud.save()
inputpost.name = ud,
inputpost.save()
# . . .
Again, depends on what userdata is.

flask-bootstrap with two forms in one page

I plan to put two forms in one page in my flask app, one to edit general user information and the other to reset password. The template looks like this
{% extends "base.html" %}
{% import "bootstrap/wtf.html" as wtf %}
{% block page_content %}
<div class="page-header">
<h1>Edit Profile</h1>
</div>
{{ wtf.quick_form(form_profile, form_type='horizontal') }}
<hr>
{{ wtf.quick_form(form_reset, form_type='horizontal') }}
<hr>
{% endblock %}
Each form has a submit button.
In the route function, I tried to separate the two form like this
form_profile = ProfileForm()
form_reset = ResetForm()
if form_profile.validate_on_submit() and form_profile.submit.data:
....
if form_reset.validate_on_submit() and form_reset.submit.data:
.....
But it didn't work. When I click on the button in the ResetForm, the ProfileForm validation logic is executed.
I suspect the problem is that wtf.quick_form() creates two identical submit buttons, but not sure.
What should I do in this case? Can bootstrap/wtf.html template deal with this situation?

Define this two SubmitField with different names, like this:
class Form1(Form):
name = StringField('name')
submit1 = SubmitField('submit')
class Form2(Form):
name = StringField('name')
submit2 = SubmitField('submit')
Then in view.py:
....
form1 = Form1()
form2 = Form2()
if form1.submit1.data and form1.validate_on_submit(): # notice the order
....
if form2.submit2.data and form2.validate_on_submit(): # notice the order
....
Now the problem was solved.
If you want to dive into it, then continue read.
Here is validate_on_submit():
def validate_on_submit(self):
"""
Checks if form has been submitted and if so runs validate. This is
a shortcut, equivalent to ``form.is_submitted() and form.validate()``
"""
return self.is_submitted() and self.validate()
And here is is_submitted():
def is_submitted(self):
"""
Checks if form has been submitted. The default case is if the HTTP
method is **PUT** or **POST**.
"""
return request and request.method in ("PUT", "POST")
When you call form.validate_on_submit(), it check if form has been submitted by the HTTP method no matter which submit button was clicked. So the little trick above is just add a filter (to check if submit has data, i.e., form1.submit1.data).
Besides, we change the order of if, so when we click one submit, it only call validate() to this form, preventing the validation error for both form.
The story isn't over yet. Here is .data:
#property
def data(self):
return dict((name, f.data) for name, f in iteritems(self._fields))
It return a dict with field name(key) and field data(value), however, our two form submit button has same name submit(key)!
When we click the first submit button(in form1), the call from form1.submit1.data return a dict like this:
temp = {'submit': True}
There is no doubt when we call if form1.submit.data:, it return True.
When we click the second submit button(in form2), the call to .data in if form1.submit.data: add a key-value in dict first, then the call from if form2.submit.data: add another key-value, in the end, the dict will like this:
temp = {'submit': False, 'submit': True}
Now we call if form1.submit.data:, it return True, even if the submit button we clicked was in form2.
That's why we need to define this two SubmitField with different names. By the way, thanks for reading(to here)!
Thanks for nos's notice, he add an issue about validate(), check the comments below!

How to initialise data on a non model form?

I have a little question regarding Forms / Views which don't use a Model object. I seem to have it set up almost the way it should, but I can't seem to figure out how to pass data around to initialise the fields in my edit form.
What I have to do is get data from a REST server which was developed using Delphi. So this django thingie won't be using the normal django ORM model thing. Currently I have it working so my app displays a list of departmets which it got using a REST call to the server. Each department has it's ID as a hyperlink.
My next step / thing I would like to do is display a form in which the user can edit some values for the selected department. Logically everything seems to be hooked up together the way it should (as far as I can see). Sadly ... for whatever reason ... I can't seem to pass along information about the clicked ID or even the selected object in my list to the detail view.
Would anyone be able to help me out ? This is what I have so far :
The urls.py :
# DelphiClient/urls.py
from django.conf.urls import patterns
from django.conf.urls import url
from . import views
urlpatterns = patterns("",
url(
regex=r"^Departments$",
view=views.DelphiDepartmentsListView.as_view(),
name="Departments"
),
url(
regex=r'^Department/(?P<pk>\d+)/$',
view=views.DepartmentFormView.as_view(),
name='department_update'
),
)
The views.py :
# DelphiClient/views.py
...
from .client import DelphiClient
from .forms import DepartmentForm
class DelphiDepartmentsListView(TemplateView):
template_name = 'DelphiDepartmentList.html'
def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
client = DelphiClient()
departments = client.get_department()
context = super(DelphiDepartmentsListView, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)
context['departments'] = departments
#client.update_department(1, 'Update From Django')
return context
class DepartmentFormView(FormView):
template_name = 'DepartmentUpdate.html'
form_class = DepartmentForm
success_url = '/DelphiClient/Departments'
def get_initial(self, **kwargs):
"""
Returns the initial data to use for forms on this view.
"""
initial = super(DepartmentFormView, self).get_initial(**kwargs)
# How can I get the ID passed along from the list view
# so I can get the correct object from my REST server and
# pass it along in the Initial ???
return initial
def form_valid(self, form):
# This method is called when valid form data has been POSTed.
# It should return an HttpResponse.
print "form.data {0}".format(form.data)
client = DelphiClient()
client.update_department(form.data["flddepartmentId"],form.data["flddepartmenet"])
return super(DepartmentFormView, self).form_valid(form)
The forms.py :
# DelphiClient/forms.py
from django import forms
from .client import DelphiClient
class DepartmentForm(forms.Form):
# How can I fill in the values for these fields using an object passed in
# thhrough Initial or the context?
flddepartmentId = forms.IntegerField(label="Department ID") #, value=1)
flddepartmenet = forms.CharField(label="New Description", max_length=100)
def update_department(self, *args, **kwargs):
#print "update_department"
#print self.data
#print self.data["flddepartmenet"]
client = DelphiClient()
client.update_department(self.data["flddepartmentId"],self.data["flddepartmenet"])
And the template for the form :
<h1>Update Department</h1>
<p>Update Department? {{ department.flddepartmentid }}</p>
<p>Something : {{ something }}</p>
<form action="" method="post">
{% csrf_token %}
{{ form.as_p }}
<p><label for="id_flddepartmentId">Department ID:</label> <input id="id_flddepartmentId" name="flddepartmentId" type="number" value="1"></p>
<p><label for="id_flddepartmenet">New Description:</label> <input id="id_flddepartmenet" maxlength="100" name="flddepartmenet" type="text"></p>
<input type="submit" value="OK">
</form>
As you can see ... I'm close ... but no cigar yet :-) Since I'm completely new to Python / Django and have been learning on the go, I have no idea what I'm doing wrong or where I should look.
If anyone would be able to help or point me in the right direction it would be really appreciated.

The positional and name-based arguments are stored in self.args and self.kwargs respectively (see the docs on name based filtering). Therefore you can access the pk with self.kwargs['pk'].
I'm not sure that you should include flddepartmentId as an editable field in the form. It means that users could go to /Department/1/, but then enter flddepartmentId=2 when they submit the form. It might be better to remove the field from the form, then use the value from the URL when calling update_department.
client.update_department(self.kwargs['pk'],self.data["flddepartmenet"])
If you are sure that you want to include flddepartmentId in your form, then your get_initial method should look as follows:
def get_initial(self, **kwargs):
"""
Returns the initial data to use for forms on this view.
"""
initial = super(DepartmentFormView, self).get_initial(**kwargs)
initial['flddepartmentId'] = self.kwargs['pk']
return initial

How to get user data with python social auth..?

I have created a small project using python social auth for logging with facebook.I have referred python social auth example at link.I can able to get the user name with request.name.But how can i get the other data like first_name,last_name,email.Any help would be appriciated
example code in views is:
def home(request):
context = RequestContext(request,
{'request': request,
'user': request.user})
return render_to_response('home.html',
context_instance=context)

Here is one way: request.user has a helper method called is_authenticated, which you can use like this:
ctx = {
'user' : request.user
}
if request.user.is_authenticated():
ctx.update({
'first_name': request.user.first_name,
'last_name': request.user.last_name,
'email' : request.user.email
})
Now, the extra attributes are present only if the user is authenticated
This is, assuming you are using the auth model of django. If not, please change the model field names accordingly.
On a side note, you should not be passing the entire request object in the context. You should be extracting only the relevant info and sending it in the context.
Now, you can access all these values from the template anyways. Example:
{% if request.user.is_authenticated %}
{{request.user.username}}
{{request.user.email}}
{# etc.. #}
{% endif %}
No need to send anything in the context explicitly. The request object already has everything

Paginating the results of a Django forms POST request

I'm using Django Forms to do a filtered/faceted search via POST, and I would like to Django's paginator class to organize the results. How do I preserve the original request when passing the client between the various pages? In other words, it seems that I lose the POST data as soon as I pass the GET request for another page back to my views. I've seen some recommendations to use AJAX to refresh only the results block of the page, but I'm wondering if there is a Django-native mechanism for doing this.
Thanks.

If you want to access the store data in later request, you would have to store it somewhere. Django provides several ways to archive this:
1) You can use sessions to store the query: Every visitor who visits your site will get an empty session object and you can store whatever you want inside this object, which acts like a dict. Drawback: A single visitor can't do multiple searches with pagination concurrently.
2) Use cookies: If you set a cookie which is stored on the client side, the browser will append the data of the cookie to each request where you can access it. Cookies are more server friendly, because you don't need a session manager for them on the server, but the data stored in cookies is visible (and editable) to the client. Drawback: same as before.
3) Use hidden fields: You can add a form with some hidden fields on your search-result page and store the query inside them. Then, the client will resend the query whenever you submit the form. Drawback: You must use a form with submit buttons for the pagination on your page (simple links wont work).
4) Create Links which contain the query: Instead of using POST, you can also use GET. For example, you could have a link like "/search/hello+world/?order=votes" and "paginated links" like "/search/hello+world/2/?order-votes". Then the query can be easily retrieved from the URL. Drawback: The maximum amount of data you can send via GET is limited (But that shouldn't be a problem for a simple search).
5) Use a combination: You might want to store all the data in a session or a database and access them via a generated key which you can put in the URL. URLs might then look like "/search/029af239ccd23/2" (for the 2nd page) and you can use the key to access a huge amount of data which you have stored before. This eliminates the drawback of solution 1 as well as that of solution 4. New drawback: much work :)
6) Use AJAX: With ajax you can store the data inside some js-variables on the client side, which can then passed to the other requests. And since ajax will only update your result list, the variables aren't getting lost.

Reading the very nice answer from tux21b I decided to implement the first option, i.e., to use the session to store the query. This is an application that searches real estate databases. Here is the view code (using django 1.5):
def main_search(request):
search_form = UserSearchForm()
return render(request, 'search/busca_inicial.html', {'search_form': search_form})
def result(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
search_form = UserSearchForm(request.POST)
if search_form.is_valid():
# Loads the values entered by the user on the form. The first and the second
# are MultiChoiceFields. The third and fourth are Integer fields
location_query_list = search_form.cleaned_data['location']
realty_type_query_list = search_form.cleaned_data['realty_type']
price_min = search_form.cleaned_data['price_min']
price_max = search_form.cleaned_data['price_max']
# Those ifs here populate the fields with convenient values if the user
# left them blank. Basically the idea is to populate them with values
# that correspond to the broadest search possible.
if location_query_list == []:
location_query_list = [l for l in range(483)]
if realty_type_query_list == []:
realty_type_query_list = [r for r in range(20)]
if price_min == None:
price_min = 0
if price_max == None:
price_max = 100000000
# Saving the search parameters on the session
request.session['location_query_list'] = location_query_list
request.session['price_min'] = price_min
request.session['price_max'] = price_max
request.session['realty_type_query_lyst'] = realty_type_query_list
# making a query outside the if method == POST. This logic makes the pagination possible.
# If the user has made a new search, the session values would be updated. If not,
# the session values will be from the former search. Of course, that is what we want because
# we want the 'next' and 'previous' pages correspond to the original search
realty_list_result = FctRealtyOffer.objects.filter(location__in=request.session['location_query_list']
).filter(price__range=(request.session['price_min'], request.session['price_max'])
).filter(realty_type__in=request.session['realty_type_query_lyst'])
# Here we pass the list to a table created using django-tables2 that handles sorting
# and pagination for us
table = FctRealtyOfferTable(realty_list_result)
# django-tables2 pagination configuration
RequestConfig(request, paginate={'per_page': 10}).configure(table)
return render(request, 'search/search_result.html', {'realty_list_size': len(realty_list_result),
'table': table})
Hope it helps!If anyone has any improvement to suggest, be welcome.

As #rvnovaes, a way to use session to solve the matter.
The drawback of his solution is that if there are many search fields you have to write many lines of code, and also if you show the search form in the result page, all the fields will be blank, while they should keep their values.
So I'd rather save all the post data in session, and at the beginning of the view force the value of request.POST and request.method if a session is defined:
""" ... """
if not request.method == 'POST':
if 'search-persons-post' in request.session:
request.POST = request.session['search-persons-post']
request.method = 'POST'
if request.method == 'POST':
form = PersonForm(request.POST)
request.session['search-persons-post'] = request.POST
if form.is_valid():
id = form.cleaned_data['id']
""" ... """
More info here

I did this in my web application with get parameters Maybe i can help you :
Views.py
class HomeView(ListView):
model = Hotel
template_name = 'index.html'
paginate_by = 10 # if pagination is desired
def get_queryset(self):
qs = super().get_queryset()
kwargs = {}
if 'title' in self.request.GET:
title = self.request.GET.get('title')
if title != '':
kwargs['title__icontains'] = title
if 'category' in self.request.GET:
category = self.request.GET.get('category')
if category:
kwargs['category_id'] = category
if 'size' in self.request.GET:
size = self.request.GET.get('size')
if size:
kwargs['size_id'] = size
if 'service' in self.request.GET:
service = self.request.GET.get('service')
if service:
kwargs['service_id'] = service
if 'ownership' in self.request.GET:
ownership = self.request.GET.get('ownership')
if ownership:
kwargs['ownership_id'] = ownership
qs = qs.filter(**kwargs)
return qs
def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
context = super().get_context_data(**kwargs)
form_init = {}
form = SearchForm()
if self.request.GET.items():
try:
parameters = self.request.GET.items()
except KeyError:
parameters = {}
for key, value in parameters:
for field in form.fields:
if key == field:
form_init[key] = value
form.initial = form_init
if 'title' in self.request.GET:
title = self.request.GET.get('title')
if title != '':
context.update({
'title': title
})
if 'category' in self.request.GET:
category = self.request.GET.get('category')
context.update({
'category': category
})
if 'size' in self.request.GET:
size = self.request.GET.get('size')
context.update({
'size': size
})
if 'service' in self.request.GET:
service = self.request.GET.get('service')
context.update({
'service': service
})
if 'ownership' in self.request.GET:
ownership = self.request.GET.get('ownership')
context.update({
'ownership': ownership
})
context.update({
'search_form': form
})
return context
Pagination file html
<div class="row">
{% if is_paginated %}
<nav aria-label="...">
<ul class="pagination">
{% if page_obj.has_previous %}
<li class="page-item"><a class="page-link" href="?category={{category}}&size={{size}}&service={{service}}&ownership={{ownership}}&page={{ page_obj.previous_page_number }}">Previous</a></li>
{% else %}
<li class="page-item disabled"><span class="page-link">Previous</span></li>
{% endif %}
<span class="page-current">
Page {{ page_obj.number }} of {{ page_obj.paginator.num_pages }}.
</span>
{% if page_obj.has_next %}
<li class="page-item"><a class="page-link" href="?category={{category}}&size={{size}}&service={{service}}&ownership={{ownership}}&page={{ page_obj.next_page_number }}">Next</a></li>
{% else %}
<li class="page-item disabled"><span class="page-link">Next</span></li>
{% endif %}
</ul>
</nav>
{% endif %}
</div>

You can ask request object if it's ajax, simply request.is_ajax. This way you can detect, whether it's first post request or further questions about the next pages.

Have the search form and the results display on one single django template. Initially, use css to hide the results display area. On POSTing the form, you could check to see if the search returned any results and hide the search form with css if results exist. If results do not exist, use css to hide the results display area like before. In your pagination links, use javascript to submit the form, this could be as simple as document.forms[0].submit(); return false;
You will need to handle how to pass the page number to django's paging engine.

My suggestion would be to store the post request using a session or a cookie. In case the post data is sensitive, you should use session to store it. The code below contains my logic to implement it using session.
def index(request):
is_cookie_set = 0
# Check if the session has already been created. If created, get their values and store it.
if 'age' in request.session and 'sex' in request.session:
age = request.session['age']
sex = request.session['sex']
is_cookie_set = 1
else:
# Store the data in the session object which can be used later
request.session['age'] = age
request.session['sex'] = sex
if(request.method == 'POST'):
if(is_cookie_set == 0): # form submission by the user
form = EmployeeForm(request.POST)
sex = form.cleaned_data['sex']
age = form.cleaned_data['age']
if form.is_valid():
result = Employee.objects.all(sex=sex,age_gte=age) # filter all employees based on sex and age
else: # When the session has been created
result = Employee.objects.all(sex=sex,age_gte=age)
paginator = Paginator(result, 20) # Show 20 results per page
page = request.GET.get('page')
r = paginator.get_page(page)
response = render(request, 'app/result.html',{'result':result})
return response
else:
form = EmployeeForm()
return render(request,'app/home.html',{'form':form})
You should also check if the post fields are empty or not and change the logic according to it. You can also store the whole post request in the session as suggested by #abidibo.
You can also use cookies for the same. I have explained it here

The Below code is working, the first request is a GET request, which accesses the form, will go directly to the else block.
Once the user puts up a search query, results will be shown, which will be a post request, and 2nd if block will be activated, this request we will store in a session.
When the user accesses 2nd search page, it will be a GET request, but we are checking whether there is an active pagination session, and also checking whether it's not a page request of GET. At this point 1st if block will be trigerred.
def search(request):
if not request.method == "POST" and 'page' in request.GET:
if 'search-query' in request.session:
request.POST = request.session['search-query']
request.method = 'POST'
if request.method == 'POST':
form = Search_form(request.POST)
request.session['search-query'] = request.POST
if form.is_valid():
search_query = form.cleaned_data.get('search_query')
search_parameter = form.cleaned_data.get('search_parameter')
print(search_query, search_parameter)
queryset_list = CompanyRecords.objects.filter(**{f'{search_parameter}__icontains': search_query}).exclude(
company_name__isnull=True).exclude(description__isnull=True).exclude(phones__isnull=True).exclude(
emails__isnull=True)[:5]
page = request.GET.get('page', 1)
paginator = Paginator(queryset_list, 2)
try:
queryset = paginator.page(page)
except PageNotAnInteger:
queryset = paginator.page(1)
except EmptyPage:
queryset = paginator.page(paginator.num_pages)
return render(request, 'search/search_results.html', {'queryset': queryset})
else:
context = {
'form': Search_form()
}
return render(request, 'search/search.html', context)