Hi Emily,
thanks so far!
unfortunately this line:
> instance = getattr(kwargs, 'instance')
throws this error:
> Exception Value: 'dict' object has no attribute 'instance'
what next?
On Aug 14, 1:52 pm, Emily Rodgers <emily.kate.rodg...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> On Aug 14, 12:14 pm, Léon Dignòn <leon.dig...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I try override a ModelForms init to claim the variable instance. After
> > that I call super.__init__().
> > It's almost working, but there is no form shown in the browser. Any
> > ideas what might be wrong?
>
> > class ProfileForm(ModelForm):
> > first_name = forms.CharField(required=False, max_length=30)
> > last_name = forms.CharField(required=False, max_length=30)
>
> > class Meta:
> > model = UserProfile
> > exclude = ('user',) # User will be filled in by the view.
>
> > def __init__(self, data=None, files=None, auto_id='id_%s',
> > prefix=None, initial=None,
> > error_class=None, label_suffix=':',
> > empty_permitted=False, instance=None):
> > f = open('debug.txt', 'w')
> > f.write("%s \n\n-----\n\n" % instance.user.first_name) # Bob
> > f.write("%s \n\n-----\n\n" % instance.user.last_name) # Marley
> > super(ProfileForm, self).__init__(data, files, auto_id,
> > prefix, initial, error_class, label_suffix, empty_permitted, instance)
>
> Rather than listing all the key word arguments (kwargs) like that, you
> are better doing it like this:
>
> import logging # probably a better way than writing to debug.txt, but
> clearly it is personal choice
>
> def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
> instance = getattr(kwargs, 'instance')
> logging.debug("First name: %s" % instance.user.first_name) # I
> like to know what it thinks it is printing!
> logging.debug("Last name: %s" % instance.user.last_name) #
> obviously you can change str if you like
> super(ProfileForm, self).__init__(data, *args, **kwargs)
>
> I don't know if this will fix your problem (hard to say without
> visibility of the view), but it may be that you have forgotten one of
> the kwargs. If you want to add extra parameters, or set them to
> specific values you can still do this before calling init.
>
> HTH,
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