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james0
james0

Reputation: 55

django how to assign a User foreign key id within view

I am trying to create a model with a foreign key which references the django model User. I have found that you are supposed to use this model when creating something like this:

    author = models.ForeignKey(User)

however any time i try to assign this from my view with this line:

    if form.is_valid():
        c = form.save(commit=False)
        c.author=request.user.id
        c.save()

I get an error complaining about how author should come from the model User. There is no User property (at least that i (a noob working on their first django project) could find) which has the user id. what is the preferred method for linking a post to it's author in django? am i going about this completely the wrong way? is there a better way of solving this problem that i am just not thinking of?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1166

Answers (2)

ruddra
ruddra

Reputation: 51968

For assigning user, it should be like:

c.author= User.objects.filter(id= request.user.id)[0]

Upvotes: 0

dhana
dhana

Reputation: 6525

You just assign this only not id,

c.author=request.user

Upvotes: 1

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