Thank you for your help.
I'm baffled. The validation error is:
<ul class="errorlist"><li>content<ul class="errorlist"><li>This field
is required.</li></ul></li></ul>
which is fair enough... but it is in the form and I've selected a
file, clicked open, and clicked submit...
I'm probably doing something mind-meltingly stupid.
hmmm.
Glad the rest of it seems ok, though.
On Apr 16, 1:41 pm, "Karen Tracey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 6:55 AM, sparky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
>
> > I have a slightly unusual requirement: I want to use a FileField in a
> > form but with a TextField in the model. (The content being uploaded is
> > a big bit of flat text, but I want to store it in the database, not as
> > a file.)
>
> > The problem is that with the code that I have together the
> > request.FILES parameter is empty, so the form fails validation, any
> > suggestions as to where I'm going wrong, thanks.
>
> I do not see any reason why what you have posted below would fail form
> validation. request.FILES will be populated, assuming you actually choose a
> file before you click "Submit". Are you really seeing a problem with form
> validation failing? If so, what exactly is the validation error message ?
> "This field is required." or "The submitted file is empty" or ...?
>
> The problem I do see in your code below is that you do not put the content
> of the uploaded file in your model as you state you want to. When your form
> is validated, cleaned_data['content'] will be an UploadedFile. If you want
> to access the content of the UploadedFile, you need to use
> cleaned_data['content'].content. As you have coded it below I believe you
> will get the name of your uploaded file put into your model's content field.
>
> Karen
>
> > sparky
>
> > the form:
> > class SubmissionForm(forms.Form):
> > title = forms.CharField(max_length=100)
> > description = forms.CharField(widget=forms.Textarea)
> > content = forms.FileField(widget=forms.FileInput)
>
> > the model:
>
> > class Submission(models.Model):
> > """
> > Submission model
> > """
> > creator = models.ForeignKey(User)
> > created_datetime = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
> > title = models.CharField(max_length=100)
> > description = models.TextField()
> > content = models.TextField()
>
> > The view code:
> > if request.method == 'POST':
> > form = SubmissionForm(request.POST, request.FILES)
> > if form.is_valid():
> > s = Submission(creator=request.user,
> > created_datetime=datetime.datetime.now(),
> > title=form.cleaned_data['title'],
> > description=form.cleaned_data['description'],
> > content=form.cleaned_data['content'])
>
> > the template:
>
> > <form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="." method="POST">
> > <table>
> > {{ form.as_p }}
> > </table>
> > <p><input type="submit" value="Submit"></p>
> > </form>
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