On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:39 AM, sparky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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've never seen that behavior. I assume you've tried different files,
different browsers, etc.? Is there anything in your setup that would limit
request bodies to something smaller than the size of the file you are trying
to upload (I believe apache has a parameter for this but I thought you would
get an error, not silent dropping of the file data, if you ran into it)? If
request.FILES is empty immediately upon entry to your view then it is
something outside of the code you have posted that is causing that, but I
have no idea what.
Karen
> 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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