On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Titan, Jer-ming Lin <csie...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> each element in the choices is a two elements tuple. first one is
> the real data will be saved in the database and second one will
> present on the form. therefore, the max_length of 'type' field must be
> modified to fit the first element in the choices tuple. Plz see the
> following code, i change the first element and the type field's
> max_length.
>
> REPORT_CHOICES = (
> ('BR', 'Bug Report'),
> ('UN', 'Unknown Problem'),
> )
> type = models.CharField(max_length=2, choices=REPORT_CHOICES)
>
Hi Titan, thank you. Yes that was something I could correct.
However the problem of the error which says "Select a valid choice. SF: Seg
Fault is not one of the available choices."
still remains. Any insight here?
> ps: you can also google some pages which use the IntegerField to
> save the choices.
>
> BR
> Titan
>
> On Dec 14, 9:04 am, john doe <thebiggestbangthe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > I am making a small Django app for a bug tracking system to get my
> > head round this awesome framework. I am facing a problem wherein when
> > accepting input via a form generated by models. The classes are listed
> below
> > (not in its entirety).
> >
> > [code]
> > class Report(models.Model):
> > #type = models.CharField(max_length=200)
> > REPORT_CHOICES = (
> > ('BR: Bug Report', 'Bug Report'),
> > ('UN: Unknown Problem', 'Unknown Problem'),
> > )
> > type = models.CharField(max_length=1, choices=REPORT_CHOICES)
> > submitter = models.CharField(max_length=200, default='Anonymous')
> > ...
> > ...
> > class Incident(models.Model):
> > report = models.ForeignKey(Report)
> > INCIDENT_CHOICES = (
> > ('SF: Seg Fault', 'SegFault'),
> > ('ML: Memory Leak', 'Memory Leak'),
> > ('MC: Memory Corruption', 'Memory Corruption'),
> > )
> > type = models.CharField(max_length=1, choices=INCIDENT_CHOICES)
> > #description of the incident
> > description = models.CharField(max_length=20000)
> > ...
> > ...
> > [/code]
> >
> > I have generated a form wherein a user can enter a report, and multiple
> > incidents related to the report. When I use the function to accept the
> > input, not actually processing anything I get "Select a valid choice. SF:
> > Seg Fault is not one of the available choices." .
> >
> > The HTML page code looks like below:
> > [code]
> > <h2>Submit a report</h2>
> > {% if new_report_form %}
> > <ul>
> > <form action="/submit_new_report/" method="post">
> > {{ new_report_form.non_field_errors }}
> > <div class="reportType">
> > {{ new_report_form.type.errors }}
> > <label for="id_reporttype">Type of Report:</label>
> > {{ new_report_form.type }}
> > </div>
> > <div class="incidentType">
> > {{ new_incident_form.type.errors }}
> > <label for="id_incidenttype">Type of Incident:</label>
> > {{ new_incident_form.type }}
> > </div>
> > ...
> > ...
> > [/code]
> >
> > The form.is_valid() call is basically saying that there's a problem with
> > validating the form input because the choice selected for the
> incident-type
> > is not valid. However, in the model description, the choices are clearly
> > valid and in the form I have different identifiers too. Can someone
> please
> > provide some advice as to why this might be happening.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
>
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