There are two ways to do this.
1. You can set the owner as the logged in user by default
2. You can provide all possible owners as options and the user can select
the owner from a dropdown.
For case 1, you may not want to display the owner field in frontend. Here
you can override form_valid and set the owner as logged in user.
class CreateDog(CreateView):
.......
def form_valid(self, form):
form.instance.owner = self.request.user
return super(CreateDog, self).form_valid(form)
For more details:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/topics/class-based-views/generic-editing/#models-and-request-user
http://ccbv.co.uk/projects/Django/1.11/django.views.generic.edit/CreateView/#form_valid
For case 2, you need to populate the list of owners by overriding the
get_initial method.
class CreateDog(CreateView):
.......
def get_initial(self):
initial_data = super(CreateDog, self).get_initial()
initial_data["owner"] = [(x.id, x.name) for x in
Owner.objects.all()]
return initial_data
For more details:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/ref/class-based-views/mixins-editing/#django.views.generic.edit.FormMixin.initial
http://ccbv.co.uk/projects/Django/1.11/django.views.generic.edit/CreateView/#get_initial
On Sunday, 28 January 2018 11:18:28 UTC+5:30, tangoward15 wrote:
>
> When I added the owner field, it doesn't have any value though the user is
> already registered.
>
> how do i make it mandatory in createview?
>
>
> owner = Owner.objects.create_user(username="blah", password="blah", email="
> bl...@blah.com <javascript:>")
> dog = Dog(name="mydog", bday=datetime.today(), owner=owner).save()
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 1:13 PM, tango ward <tango...@gmail.com
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Will try it now.
>>
>> Quesion about the on_delete=models.CASCADE, does this mean that if I
>> delete the pet (dog or cat) it will delete the owner who owns them?
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 1:11 PM, Akhil Lawrence <akhilp...@gmail.com
>> <javascript:>> wrote:
>>
>>> Your create view do not accept owner as a input and according to your
>>> models, owner can be null. That's the problem. Include owner to your create
>>> view fields as shown below. Also you may consider making owner mandatory as
>>> mentioned in my previous response.
>>>
>>>
>>> class CreateDog(CreateView):
>>> model = Dog
>>> fields = ('name', 'bday', 'owner')
>>> template_name = 'animals/dog_create.html'
>>>
>>>
>>> class CreateCat(CreateView):
>>> model = Cat
>>> fields = ('name', 'bday', 'owner')
>>> template_name = 'animals/cat_create.html'
>>>
>>> Thanks
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