Re: Different between Object-save and form-save

Both save the user to the database, but "user_form.save()" leaves the user password in plain text (which won't work when the user tries to login later) so the password must be set correctly (user.set_password(user.password)) and then the user has to be saved again for the correct (hashed) password to be stored.

On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 12:57 PM, ADEWALE ADISA <solixzsystem@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi guys, pls help with little explanation on the extract below from tango tutorial. In the code, they call user_form().save() to save into database. Then latter call user.save(). Pls what's the different between the two ? Where did user.save() save to ?

from rango.forms import UserForm, UserProfileForm

def register(request):

    # A boolean value for telling the template whether the registration was successful.
    # Set to False initially. Code changes value to True when registration succeeds.
    registered = False

    # If it's a HTTP POST, we're interested in processing form data.
    if request.method == 'POST':
        # Attempt to grab information from the raw form information.
        # Note that we make use of both UserForm and UserProfileForm.
        user_form = UserForm(data=request.POST)
        profile_form = UserProfileForm(data=request.POST)

        # If the two forms are valid...
        if user_form.is_valid() and profile_form.is_valid():
            # Save the user's form data to the database.
            user = user_form.save()

            # Now we hash the password with the set_password method.
            # Once hashed, we can update the user object.
            user.set_password(user.password)
            user.save()

            # Now sort out the UserProfile instance.
            # Since we need to set the user attribute ourselves, we set commit=False.
            # This delays saving the model until we're ready to avoid integrity problems.
            profile = profile_form.save(commit=False)
            profile.user = user

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