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user1068261
user1068261

Reputation: 31

Django BooleanField keeps return False (empty) regardless if checked or not

As stated in the title. BooleanField wont return True even if checked. This one is driving me nuts!

First I retrieve checkboxes based on a list of field id's based on a model.

forms.py

class MyForm(forms.Form):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(MyForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        fields = Fields.objects.all()
        for field in fields:
            field_name = field.ID
            self.fields[field_name] = forms.BooleanField(required=False, widget=forms.CheckboxInput(attrs={'class':'checkbox-small'}), label=field_name)

The handler never returns True even if checked on in the DOM.

models.py

def myFormHandler(request):
    siteDictionary = getDictionary(request)
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = MyForm(request.POST, error_class=DivErrorList, auto_id='%s')
        if form.is_valid():
            fields = Fields.objects.all()
            for field in fields:
                if form.cleaned_data[field.ID]:
                    print "Finally returned true!"
    else:
        form = MyForm()
        siteDictionary['form'] = form
    return render_to_response('page.html', siteDictionary, context_instance=RequestContext(request))

Any ideas? Thanks for your help.

EDIT Here is the template

<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" class="table-all">
    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th><input type="checkbox" name="check" class="checkall checkbox-small" /></th>
            <th>Name</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
    {% for field in form %}
        <tr>
            <td>{{ field }}</td>
            <td>{{ field.label }}</td>
        </tr>
    {% endfor %}
    </tbody>
</table>

<div id="pager" class="pager">
<form method="post" action=".">{% csrf_token %}
        <button type="submit" class="green"><span>Submit</span></button>
</form>
</div>

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2279

Answers (2)

Daniel Roseman
Daniel Roseman

Reputation: 600059

Your fields aren't inside your HTML form element, so aren't submitted.

Upvotes: 2

Alasdair
Alasdair

Reputation: 309109

Is field.ID an integer? If so, you need to coerce it to a string when generating field_name.

class MyForm(forms.Form):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(MyForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        fields = Fields.objects.all()
        for field in fields:
            field_name = str(field.ID)
            self.fields[field_name] = forms.BooleanField(required=False, widget=forms.CheckboxInput(attrs={'class':'checkbox-small'}), label=field_name)

Upvotes: 0

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