Thanks akaarial and bill, Much appreciated for the help on getting me to understand more about django. :)
Best Regards, Stanwin Siow On Feb 20, 2012, at 5:11 AM, akaariai wrote: > On Feb 19, 1:42 pm, Stanwin Siow <stanwin.kts...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> The below method is an excerpt taken from the default registration forms.py >> with a few additional inputs. >> >> class RegistrationForm(forms.Form): >> >> keywords = forms.ModelMultipleChoiceField(queryset=Keyword.objects.all()) >> >> def save(self, profile_callback=None): >> >> new_user = >> RegistrationProfile.objects.create_inactive_user(username=self.cleaned_data['username'],password=self.cleaned_data['password1'],email=self.cleaned_data['email'],profile_callback=profile_callback) >> new_profile = >> UserProfile(user=new_user,username=self.cleaned_data['username'], >> keywords_subscribed=self.cleaned_data['keywords'],first_name=self.cleaned_data['first_name'],last_name=self.cleaned_data['last_name'],email=self.cleaned_data['email']) >> new_profile.save() >> return new_user >> >> The highlighted portions will draw your attention to what i'm doing. As you >> can see i'm using a modelmultiplechoicefield which allows me to select >> multiple choices. >> >> However when it gets stored into the database, it appends strange characters >> ( [<Keyword:) >> >> Is there a way to get rid of the special characters? or how is it even >> appearing or getting populated? > > If keywords_subscribed is a character field (as it seems), you should > store something like [keyword.text for keyword in > self.cleaned_data['keywords']] in the field, not the model list > directly. Another option is to store the keywords in a > ManyToManyField. In any case, the problem seems to be the mismatch of > saving models instances into a field that doesn't expect model > instances. > > - Anssi > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@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.
