hi, I am more or less a beginner with django and databases.I was trying to set the author field of an entry from the request.user instead of letting the user select from a drop down list of users.I designed the models like
class Entry(models.Model): pub_date=models.DateField(default=date.today) description=models.TextField() author=models.ForeignKey(User) class EntryForm(ModelForm): class Meta: model=Entry exclude = ('author',) In views.py I created an add_entry function, def add_entry(request,template_name,page_title): form_data=get_form_data(request) form=EntryForm(form_data) if request.method=='POST' and form.is_valid() : newentry=form.save() ....some other ops... newentry.author=request.user newentry.save() .... However ,when I tried a testcase using def test_add_entry(self): self.client.login(username='me',password='mypass') self.post_data={ 'pub_date':'2010-03-08', 'description':'my new entry' } response=self.client.post(reverse('myapp_add_entry'),self.post_data) I get this IntegrityError, saying that 'null value in column "author_id" violates not-null constraint' The error occurs at the first occurrence of line newentry=form.save() in the add_entry()method Can someone help me figure out how to add the author value correctly? since I am using client.login() shouldn't the author field be taken from the logged in user thru request.user? thanks jim -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.