On Jun 24, 12:40 am, saxon75 <saxo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm having a strange problem with my site wherein a ModelForm doesn't
> appear to recognize that it has an attribute that it ought to. I
> should preface this by saying that I recently moved my codebase to a
> new server--everything had been working fine on the old server and I
> haven't made any changes to the code since then, so that seems like
> the only thing that could have changed, but I have no idea what the
> problem is.
>
> In any case, here are the relevant bits of code:
<snip>
> def add_article(request, sect):
> if request.user.is_authenticated():
> if request.user.is_superuser or request.user.groups.filter
> (name=sect).count():
> if request.method == 'POST':
> form = AddArticleForm(request.POST)
> if not form.slug:
> form.slug = slugify(form.title)
> if form.is_valid():
> article = form.save(commit=False)
> article.author = request.user
> article.created = datetime.now()
> article.section = Section.objects.get(keyword=sect)
> article.save()
> return render_to_response('thanks.html',
> context_instance=RequestContext(request))
<snip>
> The error comes up in views.py from the add_article() method, the line
> "if not form.slug:" The error itself is: 'AddArticleForm' object has
> no attribute 'slug'
>
> This is pretty odd to me, since it seems clear to me from the
> declaration that AddArticleForm does have that attribute. Further,
> this used to work.
>
> I am in the HEAD revision of django as of a few minutes ago, and my
> Python version is 2.5.4. Actually, now that I think of it, I may have
> been using Python 2.4 on the old server. Could that be the problem?
You can't access the values of form fields via attribute lookup.
Instead, after checking form.is_valid(), you should get the value of
slug via form.cleaned_data['slug'].
I can't explain why what you were doing used to work, but it
shouldn't.
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