Re: Question about form_valid: how to automatically set multiple fields when users input data via CreateView supported form?

The best way to debug it is add a print function with dir function just before the error occurring line and see what are available attributes in request.POST object like this print(dir("========", request.POST, "========")) . Also without dir function will show what is available in POST.

Look at the terminal after running development server and your action to trigger error, see what are the attributes available for your request.

Probably you have to set form.instance.article = request.POST.get('article') would work.

Regards

Britto

On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 at 02:56, Atsunori Kaneshige <atsunori@umich.edu> wrote:

Sorry, when I make a comment, I get this error.

Any advice would be really appreciated!

AttributeError at /articles/2/comment/

'WSGIRequest' object has no attribute 'article'

Request Method:	POST
Request URL:	http://127.0.0.1:8000/articles/2/comment/
Django Version:	2.1.5
Exception Type:	AttributeError
Exception Value:	'WSGIRequest' object has no attribute 'article'
Exception Location:	/Users/Koitaro/Desktop/Web_Development/MMBlog/articles/views.py in form_valid, line 75
Python Executable:	/Users/Koitaro/.local/share/virtualenvs/MMBlog-58h299OP/bin/python
Python Version:	3.6.5
Python Path:	['/Users/Koitaro/Desktop/Web_Development/MMBlog', '/Users/Koitaro/.local/share/virtualenvs/MMBlog-58h299OP/lib/python36.zip', '/Users/Koitaro/.local/share/virtualenvs/MMBlog-58h299OP/lib/python3.6', '/Users/Koitaro/.local/share/virtualenvs/MMBlog-58h299OP/lib/python3.6/lib-dynload', '/Applications/anaconda3/lib/python3.6', '/Users/Koitaro/.local/share/virtualenvs/MMBlog-58h299OP/lib/python3.6/site-packages']
Server time:	Sat, 27 Apr 2019 21:24:45 +0000

On Saturday, April 27, 2019 at 5:07:19 PM UTC-4, Atsunori Kaneshige wrote:

I really appreciate if anybody could give me an advice about form_valid.

Here is what I want to do.

I am making a simple blog.

I am making simple features:

1) only superuser can create articles.

2) logged-in users can make comments to articles.

I followed along tutorials and mostly done.

But last thing I want to do is that when users make comments to any articles, I want author field and article field to be automatically set.

Currently, users need to choose author field and article field to make comments as well as comment texts.

The tutorial that I followed along uses form_valid and by using form_valid, now I don't need to choose author.

But I have been struggling with how to automatically set article field by using form_valid.

I have a simple models.py and views.py below.

<models.py>

class Article(models.Model):

title = models.CharField(max_length=255)

body = models.TextField()

date = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)

author = models.ForeignKey(

get_user_model(),

on_delete=models.CASCADE,

)

def __str__(self):

return self.title

def get_absolute_url(self):

return reverse('article_detail', args=[str(self.id)])

class Comment(models.Model): # new

    article = models.ForeignKey(

    Article,

    on_delete=models.CASCADE,

    related_name = 'comments',

    )

    comment = models.CharField(max_length=140)

    author = models.ForeignKey(

        get_user_model(),

        on_delete=models.CASCADE,

    )

    def __str__(self):

        return self.comment

    def get_absolute_url(self):

        return reverse('article_list')

<views.py>

...(not showing all)

#for comment

class ArticleCommentCreateView(LoginRequiredMixin, CreateView):

model = Comment

template_name = 'article_comment_new.html'

fields = ('comment',)

login_url = 'login'

def form_valid(self, form):

form.instance.author = self.request.user

form.instance.article = self.request.article

return super().form_valid(form)

I keep getting errors with this code.

I know that form.instance.article = self.request.article is something wrong, but I am having hard time to figure out how to set article field to be automatically set.

Please give any advice about this.

I really appreciate.

Looking forward to hearing from anyone.

Best regards,

Nori

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