I just found out the CommentForm actually requires to set target_object for
initialization.
It should've been
commForm = CommentForm(target_object = myobj, data=request.POST)
Sorry for the noise on the list!
On Thursday, 7 May 2015 18:05:09 UTC-5, Martin Beroiz wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm rather new to Django and I'm trying to include django_comments form in
> another form a user can choose.
> Basically, the user will fill a custom form (of mine) and possibly leave a
> comment with a form generated with django_comments.
> In a nutshell, I want to save a comment programmatically from my custom
> view/form.
>
> A minimal version of my 'rank' view and template is:
>
> from django_comments.forms import CommentForm
> @login_required
> def rank(request):
> if request.method == "POST":
> rankForm = RankingForm(data=request.POST)
> commForm = CommentForm(data=request.POST)
>
> if form.is_valid() and commForm.is_valid():
> r = rankForm.save()
> commForm.save()
>
> else:
> rankForm = RankingForm()
> return render(request, 'rank.html', {'form': rankForm, 'tc_id': '1',
> ... other stuff })
>
>
> and in the template:
>
> <form id="rankForm" method="post" action="{% url 'rank' %}"
> enctype="multipart/form-data">
> {% csrf_token %}
> {{ rankForm.as_p }}
> {% get_comment_form for my_app.my_model tc_id as comment_form %}
>
> {{ comment_form.comment }}
> {{ comment_form.honeypot }}
> {{ comment_form.content_type }}
> {{ comment_form.object_pk }}
> {{ comment_form.timestamp }}
> {{ comment_form.security_hash }}
> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Rank Transient" />
> </form>
>
>
>
> Django throws an error on this line: commForm =
> CommentForm(data=request.POST)
> TypeError __init__() takes at least 2 arguments (2 given)
>
> I don't know how to initialize a comment object with the data supplied on
> the form and save it using the provided methods from django_comments.
> I did in the past create a whole Comment() instance from scratch and
> filled it all with the correct data, but it seemed to me like a hack,
> bypassing all the security checks built-in in the comment package.
>
> How would I go about to save a comment programmatically from my custom
> view/form?
>
> Thanks,
> Martin.
>
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