My pleasure ;) Enjoy coding!
On 01 Oct 2014, at 22:04, zaiks0105 <lah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Daniel,
>
> I appreciate your help. I got drifted away yesterday and got back to it
> today. I found my mistake: a fricking typo. My polls/detail.html look for
> 'error_message' while I spelt 'error_messge' in my views.py. So the error msg
> was never shown though the page was redirected properly.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> On Monday, September 29, 2014 9:36:31 AM UTC-4, Daniel Rus Morales wrote:
> No, that’s not the cause, the lack of it would be. That line shows the
> content of ‘error_message' when it does exist and has a value other than
> None. But if you have it in your template the error must be somewhere else in
> your code. Must be a simple syntax mistake you didn’t notice, either in the
> template file or in the vote view.
>
> To be sure that your code is raising an exception you can place a print
> statement right after the except, before the call to render. Replace the call
> to render with these lines, they do the same but also print a message in the
> console:
>
> except (KeyError, Choice.DoesNotExist):
> # redisplay the question voting form
> context = {
> 'question': p,
> 'error_message': "You didn't select a choice.",
> }
> print("context: ", context)
> return render(request, 'polls/detail.html', context)
>
>
> Click vote again and see what’s the output when you click on “Vote” without
> selecting any choice. The text of the print statement will show up in the
> console where you launched `python manage.py runserver`.
>
> If you see the output “context: “ and the ‘error_message’ string with the
> actual message, then you have a syntax mistake in your template. Otherwise
> it’s in your view.
>
> Cheers
>
>
> On 29 Sep 2014, at 14:55, zaiks0105 <lah...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I do. Is that line causing the behavior?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Monday, September 29, 2014 7:15:47 AM UTC-4, Daniel Rus Morales wrote:
>> Hi Zaiks0105,
>>
>> Do you have the following line in "your polls/templates/polls/detail.html”?
>>
>> {% if error_message %}<p><strong>{{ error_message }}</strong></p>{% endif %}
>>
>> On 29 Sep 2014, at 12:48, zaiks0105 <lah...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am following Django official tutorial and have unanswered issue at part
>>> 4, https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/intro/tutorial04/. Here is the
>>> exception handling code,
>>>
>>> except (KeyError, Choice.DoesNotExist):
>>> # Redisplay the question voting form.
>>> return render(request, 'polls/detail.html', {
>>> 'question': p,
>>> 'error_message': "You didn't select a choice.",
>>> })
>>>
>>> When I run the server and click on [Vote] without selecting a choice, the
>>> page does NOT show me the error message. The same voting page comes back as
>>> if [Vote] was not clicked.
>>> I checked my lines and everything seems identical per tutorial.
>>>
>>> Any help appreciated!
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
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