This is frustrating. I need to slow down before posting.
I wanted to make it clear that I still have the problem, it's just
that I was correcting the way I typed out the example in this forum.
On Jan 30, 2:03 pm, steve <steveb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dang, I need to make a correction. Meant to type:
>
> Ingr = IngredientEditForm(request.POST, instance=Item),
>
> not:
> instance=I
>
> On Jan 30, 2:01 pm, steve <steveb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone, this issue is related simply to using jquery's $.post to
> > send some data to my view. I want to edit an item via Ajax (i..e the
> > way de.li.cious lets you edt an item without refreshing page) :
>
> > JAVASCRIPT
> > -------------
> > <pre>
> > data = { "name":"apple",
> > "id":ingred_id,
> > "category":"",
> > "stock_status":0,
> > "storename":"albertsons",
> > "user":0
> > };
>
> > $.post(url,data,processSuccessfulEdit, "json");
> > </pre>
>
> > VIEWS.PY
> > -----------
> > # first get the item to edit-----------
> > id = request.POST['id']
> > Item = Ingredient.objects.get(pk=int(id))
>
> > # then save it
> > Ingr = IngredientEditForm(request.POST, instance=I)
> > Ingr.save()
>
> > The problem is that the form validation fails. And it's because I'm
> > sending a blank string in the category field. This field, in the
> > Ingredient table, is null=TRUE, so I was expecting it to work.
>
> > If I launch a python shell manually and run this:
> > ----------------------------------
> > p = Ingredient
> > (name="testingr",category_id="",stock_status=1,user_id=0,storename="vons")
> > p.save()
>
> > It works, it gets inserted succesfully. Django accepts the blank
> > string and creates a record with this foreign integer field as null.
>
> > I'm thinking I should put aside the usage of ModelForm for now and
> > manually do the updating of the record in the view function, unless
> > there's something I'm not doing right.
>
> > Wondering if anyone had run into this
> > thanks,
> > Steve
> > =====================================================
>
> > in case needed, here is the modelform class as well
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > class IngredientEditForm(ModelForm):
> > class Meta:
> > model = Ingredient
>
> > class Ingredient(models.Model):
> > name = models.CharField(max_length=250)
> > stock_status = models.PositiveSmallIntegerField()
> > category = models.ForeignKey(Ingredcategory, null=True)
> > user = models.ForeignKey(FhyUser)
> > storename = models.CharField(max_length=50)
>
> > def __unicode__(self):
> > return self.name
> > class Meta:
> > db_table = u'ingredient'
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