My apologies, I guess that was a rude thing to write but believe me, my intention was not to be rude at all. I know that no one here owes me an answer and I respect that folks still help. Please accept my apologies if I came off as a rude person in my last message.
Thanks a lot for your help. --AJ On Mar 17, 10:39 am, Daniel Roseman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday, March 17, 2011 2:33:50 PM UTC, AJ wrote: > > > No one? > > > On Mar 16, 10:05 pm, AJ <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have a model like this: > > > > class Post (models.Model): > > > name = models.CharField(max_length=1000, help_text="required, name > > > of the post") > > > description = models.TextField(blank=True) > > > custom_hashed_url = models.CharField(unique=True, max_length=1000, > > > editable=False) > > > > def save(self, *args, **kwargs): > > > #How to save User here? > > > super(Model, self).save() > > > > View code: > > > > if not errors: > > > f = PostForm(request.POST) > > > f.save() > > > > There is an old post that I followed but could not do it. And also > > > this post is old. > >http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2006/nov/02/django-tips-auto-populated-f... > > > > Even though I have the user field as FK, I get this error: 'Cannot > > > assign None: "MyModel.user" does not allow null values.' > > > > This essentially means (IMHO) that my View does not send the User > > > along. How can I auto populate the user field with Django User, the > > > currently logged in user. > > Don't be rude - it's only a few hours since your initial query. Perhaps all > those who knew the answer were busy, or haven't looked at the list since you > posted. > > Anyway, the answer is that you don't do this in the model. You do ti in the > view: > > form = PostForm(request.POST) > if form.is_valid(): > post = form.save(commit=False) > post.user = request.user > post.save() > > Of course, your posted model code doesn't actually include a FK to User - I > assume you have one, because otherwise you wouldn't have got that error. It > would have been helpful to post the actual code. > -- > DR. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
