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Patr01
Patr01

Reputation: 111

How to save username which submits the form?

I'm new to django. I'm trying to create a sports betting game as my first django app. I have form, using which I'm able to save home goals and away goals for particular game to database, but I can't find a way to insert a username there. Hope you can help!

Here is my view:

@login_required
def group_games(request, groupname):
games = Match.objects.filter(groupname=groupname)
template = loader.get_template('C:\djangoenvs\\typer\\typer\\templates\group_games.html')

username = User.get_username()

for game in games:
    game_id = get_object_or_404(Match, pk=game)

form = BetForm(request.POST or None)
if form.is_valid():
    print ('valid form')
    form.save()
else:
    print ('invalid form')
    print (BetForm.errors)

context = {
    'games': games,
    'groupname': groupname,
    'form': form,
}

User.get_username() raises the following error:

get_username() missing 1 required positional argument: 'self'

I tried to change it to User.get_username(self) but then:

name 'self' is not defined

Thanks for every answer!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1409

Answers (1)

François Constant
François Constant

Reputation: 5496

User.get_username()

User represents the complete table, not the record. This is why you get an error.

So remove: username = User.get_username()

A user might be able to change their username in your application, you can save a foreign key to the user instead. When you save the form do this:

if form.is_valid():
    print ('valid form')
    bet = form.save(commit=False) # the bet isn't saved just yet
    bet.user = request.user # you add the user here
    print bet.user.username
    bet.save() # finally save the bet in the database

In your Bet model, you need to add a field to record the user. For example:

class Bet(models.Model):
    ...
    user = models.ForeignKey(to=User, related_name="bets", blank=True, null=True)
    ...

Upvotes: 1

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