On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Bobby Roberts <tchend...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all. I'm using python2.5 / django .96x (yes i know - we're
> upgrading soon). I have an issue with a multiplechoice field which I
> can't figure out. Here are snippets
>
>
> from the form:
> # disaster choices previously defined
> Disaster=forms.MultipleChoiceField (required=True,
> choices=Disaster_Choices, label="Disaster(s)",
> widget=forms.CheckboxSelectMultiple(attrs={'class':'multibox'}))
>
>
> from the model:
> Disaster = models.CharField (max_length=20,
> blank=False,db_index=True)
>
>
> from the view:
> mydata = Record (
> Disaster = CleanMe(request.POST.get('Disaster','')),,
> Active = 0)
> mydata.save()
>
>
>
> Ok so here's what's going on.... There are 4 disasters which appear as
> checkboxes on the form. This works great. When the form is
> submitted, I run the form field through a little function called
> CleanMe which strips out certain character combinations. I do an
> assert here right before the mydata = line to view what was submitted
> off of the form for the disaster options.
>
> If I select Earthquake, Tornado, Hurricane, I would expect to pass in
> EQ, TO, HU to the view. However, only HU is being passed to the
> view. No matter how many I select, only the last option is being
> passed.
>
> I'm obviously not doing something correctly but can someone point me
> in the right direction here?
I'd guess you need to be calling getlist rather than get to pull all the
various values from the POST data. (Which is a detail you wouldn't need to
worry about if you were using the standard form clean() framework...not sure
why you are seemingly winging it on cleaning form data instead of using the
mechanisms built into forms?)
Karen
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