Daniel Roseman wrote: > On Jun 29, 2:24 pm, John Aherne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> OK. I did some more experimenting with ModelChoiceField and my table. >> >> Surprise. It worked when I thought it would not. Why did it work. By >> luck in my model I had the __unicode__ function return the right value. >> So now I could see better what was happening. >> >> I also printed out the post values in the 'runserver' so I could see >> better there what was being selected. There I was initially confused >> because the cleaned_data was the return value from __unicode__ and not >> what I wanted. >> >> But if I looked at the POST data direct I had the correct ID I wanted. >> >> The I saw what was happening. The post was rcmcli01:3, so the table was >> being called with the code and giving me the name. But what I really >> want at this point is the code so I can use it to look up another table >> for a list of jobs. For the moment I can take that directly from the >> POST data but I should really be getting it from cleaned_data. Not sure >> how I can do that at the moment. >> >> Thanks >> >> John Aherne >> > > > I think you're being confused by the display of what's being returned. > > In fact the value in cleaned_data should be the actual *model > instance*. Since you have __unicode__ defined on that model, when you > do > >>>> value = myform.cleaned_data['mychoicefield'] >>>> print value >>>> > you will see the value of the unicode method you defined. But the > underlying value is the actual element - you can do > >>>> print value.id >>>> > to get the id, and so on. > > By the way, I haven't addressed the second part of your OP, which was > how to dynamically filter the values in the choicefield according to > session data. Here's a good post that explains that: > http://oebfare.com/blog/2008/feb/23/changing-modelchoicefield-queryset/ > -- > DR. > > > Thanks for the new info. I'll take a closer look.
Of course some of these things are documented, but you only see them when you have found out what is happening. Thanks John Aherne --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
