No, I do not get any traceback. If any statement fails the exeption
will redirect me back to the edit form.
How can I force a traceback? It would be more helpfully if an error
message will be returned.
I will check soon if I can solve the problem with your hints.
On 26 Okt., 14:01, Thomas Guettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am Freitag, 26. Oktober 2007 10:53 schrieb äL:
>
> > I use Django to manage addresses. To publish the data I have a list
> > and a detailed view. In the detail view I can change the name,
> > address, phone, etc. of the person. To do that I created an edit
> > form.
>
> > Now, everythin is fine. Only if I try to change and save the birthday
> > (witch is a datefield) it doesn't work. Everthing else is no problem.
> > Does anybody know why I cannot save datefields?
>
> What mean "doesn't work"? Nothings happens? Do you get a traceback?
>
> [cut]
>
>
>
> > ## views.py ##
> > def Karateka_save(request, karateka_id):
> > from kav.info.models import Karateka, Country, Location, Dojo
> > karateka = Karateka.objects.get(id = karateka_id)
>
> > try:
> > karateka.person.nameLast = request['nameLast']
> > karateka.person.nameFirst = request['nameFirst']
> > karateka.person.address = request['address']
> > karateka.person.phone = request['phone']
> > karateka.person.birthdate = request['birthdate']
> > karateka.comment = request['comment']
>
> > karateka.save()
> > karateka.person.save()
> > except:
> > return HttpResponseRedirect("/info/karateka-%d/edit" %
> > int(karateka_id))
>
> > return HttpResponseRedirect("/info/karateka-%d/" %
> > int(karateka_id) )
> > ## end views.py ##
>
> this looks very strange. I guess you are new to python programming.
>
> Some hints:
>
> - don't catch all exceptions ("except:")
> - keep only few (at best one line) between "try" and "except".
> - birthday is of type datetime.date. You set it to a string.
> - Have a look at newforms. form_for_model and form_for_instance
> might help you. You should use forms.DateField for the birthday.
>
> Thomas
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