Re: Django formset hidden id field

Without looking at the link I guess that you explantion is more or less correct. 

But it's not a security issue that the database is updated by a form. It has to be updated by a form. To make it a correct django form there is a hidden field with the CSRF token. This protects the database being updated from any illegal source. 

In your example there is this csrf missing, Most probably for didactical reasons. 

Refer to https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/csrf/

Cheers

Matthias

2015-05-27 15:47 GMT+02:00 Cheng Guo <cheng.guo@gmail.com>:

Hello,

I have a formset and when I render it, Django would include this line in the HTML:

<input id="id_form-0-id" name="form-0-id" type="hidden">

I am curious what is the purpose of having an id field here. 

I mean in what situation would you use it. I did look through Django's documentation on formsetbut cannot find much documentation on this.

One answer I got is that this id field is the value of the primary key of the model bound to this form. It is there so that when the formset updates, people can use it to retrieve the corresponding record from the database.

Is the above explaination correct?

If this explaination is correct, then my next question is, wouldn't it be dangerous to expose the primary key like that? I can make a post call to your server with a modified pk which can mess up your database.

Thank you!

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