Yeah, I realize this now hah. Instead I am now passing request into a ModelForm for what I need. Basically I have a comment system, and on each comment post I wanted to run it through Akismet, which required the IP and User Agent. So I just passed request into my form.save() method on comment adds. Works well. Thanks for the input though
On Apr 30, 9:12 am, zinckiwi <zinck...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey everyone. I'm trying to access the request object while overriding > > the save or tapping into the post_save on a model. I need request info > > when someone posts a comment. But I don't just want to handle this in > > my view, I would like it to be cleaner than that, so that > > functionality would remain even when i'm testing in the django admin. > > You actually do want to handle this in the view (or form, depending). > Certainly not in the model :) > > Say you want to import some comments from another source at some point > in the future, and you write a little custom manager command to do > that. Your save() won't work, because you're trying to create objects > from the command line, not via a HTTP connection, and therefore don't > have a request object. > > The model is the python representation of the data. It shouldn't make > any assumptions about its environment. > > Can you tell me the use case you're trying to solve here? We can > figure out where that logic best "belongs". > > Regards > Scott > > -- > 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. -- 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.
