I am working on a simple comment app that is meant to be generic and reusable. Everything is going well, but the one thing I am having a problem with is how to handle comment submissions that dont validate.
For a normal form post, I would just validate the Form in the view, and then render the template with the Form. The template would then access the errors from the form class. However, since my comment app is standalone, it does not know which template should be rendered, and which data should be passed to the template. Looking at other comment implementations, that all appear to work around this with the following flow: comment form > preview (show any errors) > post comment I do not want to have a preview page. The only way I can think to get around this is: if the comment form does not validate, set a cookie with the submitted comment data, redirect to the page that the comment submission came from. This will trigger the view for that page, in which I can then check for the cookie, and pre-populate the form, validate it, and then create the template (which would show the errors). This seems like a huge hack, and : 1. doesnt work if cookies are disabled 2. ties my app view to the comments implementation a little too closely. Anyone have any other ideas or thoughts on how to handle this? I could store the render view in the session, but this doesnt seem any better than above. And, yes, I know there are other comment apps, and that newcomments is being worked on. However, I am doing this in part to learn more about django. Thanks for any thoughts... mike chambers --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
