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xis10z
xis10z

Reputation: 701

How to easily extract request.POST data after Django form submission?

My request.POST data looks like this after my Django form submission:

<QueryDict: {'form-0-country': ['19389'], 'form-0-city': ['Montreal'], 'form-0-eid': ['450'], 'form-0-company': ['Nestle'], 'form-0-dept': ['HR'], 'form-1-country': ['19390'], 'form-1-city': ['Toronto'], 'form-1-eid': ['432'], 'form-1-company': ['Nestle'], 'form-1-dept': ['Finance']}>

These are values of two forms contained in two different rows on the webpage. The values from these two rows are printed sequentially in the request.POST. Is there a way to get this data printed in the backend in a simpler way so that I don't have to loop through all this data to extract the specific fields contained in it?

For eg. something like this: <QueryDict: {'form-0-country': ['19389','19390'], 'form-0-city': ['Montreal','Toronto'], 'form-0-eid': ['450'], 'form-0-company': ['Nestle','Nestle'], 'form-0-dept': ['HR','Finance']> so that I can easily loop through the value (lists) in the dict above.

instead of: <QueryDict: {'form-0-country': ['19389'], 'form-0-city': ['Montreal'], 'form-0-eid': ['450'], 'form-0-company': ['Nestle'], 'form-0-dept': ['HR'], 'form-1-country': ['19390'], 'form-1-city': ['Toronto'], 'form-1-eid': ['432'], 'form-1-company': ['Nestle'], 'form-1-dept': ['Finance']}>

Here is my code snippet:

if request.method == 'POST':
  form = CreationForm(request.POST)
  
  if form.is_valid():                         
             form.save()
             print(form.cleaned_data)```

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1271

Answers (2)

yousof
yousof

Reputation: 287

You should print form instead of printing request.POST

e.g.

def your_view(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = YourForm(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
             print(form.cleaned_data)
             ...
             ...
             ...

Upvotes: 0

Ahmed Ablak
Ahmed Ablak

Reputation: 738

You can use cleaned_data to extract the values from your form.

For example:

country = form.cleaned_data["country"]
city = form.cleaned_data["city"]

Upvotes: 1

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