Re: Django forms validation

Good morning Lekan. My response is inline...
On May 6, 2016 4:21 AM, "Lekan Wahab" <olamyy53@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Babatunde,
> Thank you for answering my question.
> I have actually done that.
> But Django throws and error whenever I I instantiate form/for_class to ContactForm(request. POST).
> It says it's expected only a single argumen. but two was provided.
>
That means you defined your form class without any arguments. I've looked at your form definition and that's exactly what's happening.

>> >> class ContactForm(forms.ModelForm):
>> >>     helper = FormHelper()
>> >>     helper.form_tag = False
>> >>     def __init__(self):

# __init__ is given only one argument. You didn't supply all the other arguments needed for the form to work properly.

>> >>         super(ContactForm, self).__init__()
>> >>         for key in self.fields:
>> >>             self.fields[key].required= False
>> >>             self.fields[key].label = False
>> >>          
>> >>
>> >>     class Meta:
>> >>         fields = '__all__'
>> >>         model =  Contact
> On 05 May 2016 10:36 PM, "Babatunde Akinyanmi" <tundebabzy@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Lekan. I have responded inline but my answer might not be a complete fix.....
>>
>> On May 5, 2016 4:56 PM, "Lekan Wahab" <olamyy53@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> > Please, i have a model form in forms.py which am trying to validate and update my database with. However, for some reason the form is not being validated. I have tried everything i could think of. It just reloads the page.
>> >
>> > views.py
>> >>
>> >> from django.shortcuts import render
>> >> from information.forms import ContactForm
>> >> from django.http import HttpResponse, HttpResponseRedirect
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> def index(request):
>> >>     form_class = ContactForm
>> >>     if request.method == 'POST':
>> >>         form = form_class()
>>
>> The above line creates an empty form because you didn't supply anything as the data argument therefore the is_valid method will never return True. You need to instantiate it with your POST data. Try:
>>              form = form_class(request.POST)
>> >>         if form.is_valid():
>> >>             ###Dummy text to check validation
>> >>             return  HttpResponse('Done')
>> >>     return render(request, 'information/index.html', {'form': form_class})
>> >>
>>
>> {'form': form_class}
>> form_class is not an object. Perhaps you meant {'form': form}
>> >>
>> >> def complete(request):
>> >>     return HttpResponse("Thank you for contacting us")
>> >
>> >
>> > models.py
>> >  
>> >>
>> >> from crispy_forms.helper import FormHelper
>> >> from django import forms
>> >> from django.core.exceptions import ValidationError
>> >> from django.forms import Form
>> >> from information.models import Contact
>> >> from crispy_forms.helper import FormHelper
>> >> from crispy_forms.layout import Layout,Fieldset, HTML
>> >> from crispy_forms.bootstrap import TabHolder,Tab
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> class ContactForm(forms.ModelForm):
>> >>     helper = FormHelper()
>> >>     helper.form_tag = False
>> >>     def __init__(self):
>> >>         super(ContactForm, self).__init__()
>> >>         for key in self.fields:
>> >>             self.fields[key].required= False
>> >>             self.fields[key].label = False
>> >>          
>> >>
>> >>     class Meta:
>> >>         fields = '__all__'
>> >>         model =  Contact
>> >
>> >
>> > Thank you.
>> >
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