I've been trying for the past week or so to make a rather simple view
work the way I think it should, and I keep failing miserably.
What I'd like to do is to extend the user model with an app by
allowing a user to supply one piece of information about themselves,
their twitter user name. I could do this with the AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE
setting, but I want to extend the user model with other apps in the
future, and not to use the normal way here.
So, it seems to me that I need to use user as a foreignkey, and that I
need to add a piece of information about them to the database.
So far, I've come up with a view that looks like this:
@login_required
def index(request):
# If they did a post, then submit the data & redirect the user to /
modules
if request.method == 'POST':
form = twitterForm(request.POST)
if form.is_valid():
#Then we save the data to the database
form = form.cleaned_data
current_user = get_object_or_404(request.user,
pk=request.user.id)
t = TwitterModel(
user= current_user,
twitter_username= form['twitter_username'],
)
t.save()
return HttpResponseRedirect('/modules/')
# If they did not do a post, show them the form.
else:
form = twitterForm()
return render_to_response('twitter/index.html', {'form': form})
That's pretty basic. The problem is that it tries to do an insert
EVERY time it is completed, which isn't what I intended. If the insert
has already been done, it needs to do an update, and vice versa.
Can somebody make sense of where I went wrong here? I'm new to django,
and this is giving me a huge headache (metaphorically, that is).
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