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Ani Varghese
Ani Varghese

Reputation: 403

Form submit not POST's the value in Django

When i just tried to save data using this simple form , it is not getting posted . Is there anything wrong in declaration of actions or url's ?

Here the request.method is GET instead of POST even-though the form method is set as POST

Model file

   from django.db import models

   # Create your models here.
   class Contact(models.Model):

       name = models.CharField(max_length=30, null=True, blank=True)
       company_id = models.CharField(max_length=30)

       def __unicode__(self):
           return self.name

Form.py uses the modelform

from contact.models import Contact
from django.forms import ModelForm

class AddcntForm(ModelForm):
    class Meta:
    model = Contact

Views

from contact.forms import AddcntForm
from django.contrib import messages
from django.shortcuts import render_to_response, redirect, get_object_or_404
from django.template.context import RequestContext

def add_cnt(request, form_class=AddcntForm):

    print request.method
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = form_class(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            form.save(request)
            messages.success(request, "New Contact added.")
            return redirect('##success##')
    else:            
        form = form_class()
    return render_to_response(
    'vec/add_cnt.html',
    {'form': form},
    context_instance=RequestContext(request))

Url

from django.conf.urls import *
from django.conf import settings
urlpatterns = patterns('contact.views',   
   url(r'^addcnt/$', 'add_cnt', name='add_cnt'),    
)

template file is as follows

{% block content %}
<form method="post" action="/hr/addcnt/"   >{% csrf_token %}
{{ form.as_p }}
<input type="submit" value="Ok" />
</form>
{% endblock %}

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5833

Answers (2)

Akash Patra
Akash Patra

Reputation: 1

I was confused too with the same issue.

When the form is called initially it is "GET" request so the statement -print request.method will print "GET".

After entering values in the form if you click on submit, you can see in the console the same statement -print request.method will print "POST" which is actually a post request.

Upvotes: 0

bruno desthuilliers
bruno desthuilliers

Reputation: 77902

You're passing the request.GET querydict to your form when the method is POST. You should pass request.POST instead.

Also you're passing the request to form.save(). The only (optional) argument expected by ModelForm.save() is a boolean "commit" flag which, if true, prevent the form from effectively saving the instance (cf https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/topics/forms/modelforms/#the-save-method). Remember that in Python each object have a boolean value... IOW you're saying the form to not save your instance ;)

Upvotes: 2

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