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Oli
Oli

Reputation: 2587

get values from MulitpleChoiceField

I'm struggling with something that seems quite simple to me so I apologize in advance if this seems a silly question. I am struggling to get the value submitted by a form using POST that has values that comes from a drop down list. The values are displayed from the django admin site, ie an admin user can add multiple values in the admin site and these values appear in a drop down list using a MulitpleChoiceField. (this way admins control the ip addresses that can be tested against)

In my models, I have the following configured.

from django.db import models

class ServerIpAddress(models.Model):
    name                = models.CharField(max_length=200)

    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.name


from platform.models import ServerIpAddress

In my form, I have the following configured.

serverip = forms.ModelChoiceField(queryset=CloudStackIpAddress.objects.all(), 
           label='server IP to test')

When the form is submitted, I am collecting the cleaned data in my views.py

cd = form.cleaned_data
serverip = cd['serverip']

However when I review the value comes back as after the form has been submitted I get the following

 'serverip': <ServerIpAddress: 10.0.25.14>

I just need the ip address, in this case 10.0.25.14 (or it could be another value). The format I currently have is causing a problem further down the line as the script cannot determine what the IP address is as it currently reads .

Please can someone help?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 72

Answers (2)

Daniel Roseman
Daniel Roseman

Reputation: 599460

You have a ServerIpAddress instance - and according to your model, the value is stored in the name attribute. So if you just need to pass the value to some other function, you would do serverip.name.

Upvotes: 1

Burhan Khalid
Burhan Khalid

Reputation: 174614

serverip = cd['serverip'].name should fix your problem.

Did you know that django already provides an IPAddressField?

Upvotes: 1

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