If it's not valid, then something likely threw a validation error. What does the error say?
-- dz On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Theme Park Photo, LLC <swir...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It has data! It was created from an existing instance...and all the > fields have values > > 'body': u'<p>hello there</p>', 'allow_comments': > 1, 'author': 10L, 'tease': u'<p>hello there</ > p>', > 'publish': datetime.datetime(2009, 3, 23, 15, > 3, > 36), 'score': -93L, 'categories': [1L], > 'title': > u'Hello', 'slug': u'hello-0', 'tags': > u'hello'} > > > On Mar 24, 12:06 pm, Alex Gaynor <alex.gay...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Theme Park Photo, LLC >> <swir...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> > Im trying to get code to edit an existing record in a table working. >> > For some reason, form.is_valid is returning false (and I can't save it >> > because there's no cleaned data). Even reduced to this (below) where >> > I'm simply getting an existing "Post" object, creating a ModelForm, >> > and validating it, fails! >> >> > Any suggestions? >> >> > post = Post.objects.get(id=postId) >> > form = PostForm(instance=post) >> > if form.is_valid(): # All validation rules pass >> > form.save() >> > else: >> > # at this point, non_field_errors and _get_errors >> > return null. _errors is defined as none(), yet form.is_valid >> > # is returning false >> >> A form without data is never considered valid. You probably want your >> workflow to be more like: >> >> obj = Model.objects.get() >> if request.method == 'POST': >> form = Form(request.POST, isntance=obj) >> if form.is_valid(): >> form.save() >> else: >> form = Form(instance=obj) >> return render_to_response() >> >> -- >> "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to >> say it." --Voltaire >> "The people's good is the highest law."--Cicero > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
