thank you.
Excluding city from the ModelForm seems to work as well...
class AddRestaurantForm(ModelForm):
rating = forms.IntegerField(widget=forms.Select(choices =
RATING_CHOICE), required=False)
city = forms.CharField(max_length=100)
class Meta:
model = Restaurant
exclude = ('slug', 'city')
On Nov 27, 9:10 pm, Steve Howell <showel...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am not fully tracking to the problem here, but when it comes to
> overriding save() behavior on forms, I find the following helper to be
> handy:
>
> def build_instance_from_form(model_form):
> instance = model_form.save(commit=False)
> return instance
>
> Then in your view code do something like this:
>
> restaurant = build_instance_from_form(form)
> # fix up data like city
> restaurant.save()
>
> This can help you avoid all the complexity of overriding save() on the
> form object and delegating to super(), etc., at least in some cases.
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