How to properly bind a Django form?
I am working on a form that picks a Sale id and submits it to the server.
When i submit it to the server a bind it using form = DeleteSalesForm(request.POST)
and check it form.is_bound
returns False.
This is my views.py
def delete_sales(request):
if not request.user.is_authenticated:
return redirect('/login')
if request.method == 'GET':
form = DeleteSalesForm()
print("GET")
return render(request, 'inventorymanagment/delete_sales.html', {'form': form})
form = DeleteSalesForm(request.POST)
print("checking if form is valid", request.POST, form.is_bound, form)
if form.is_valid():
form.delete_sale()
# redirect
return redirect('/')
else:
print("sale not deleted")
# why is the form invalid?
print(form.errors)
return render(request, 'inventorymanagment/delete_sales.html', {'form': form})
Here is the traceback:
[31/Aug/2022 15:38:36] "POST /delete_sales HTTP/1.1" 200 932
checking if form is valid <QueryDict: {'csrfmiddlewaretoken': ['q3aga7bySuscQ6bb9zrh3pFUlfoIoRoGQnHvQQ8LlbiEfUl1XDSGp2fk3nCj5KJk'], 'id': ['16']}> False <tr>
<th><label for="id_id">Sale:</label></th>
<td>
<select name="id" id="id_id">
<option value="16">id: 16, iphone 6 quantity: 50 price: 30.00 day: 2022-08-31</option>
<option value="17">id: 17, Iphone 8 quantity: 70 price: 80.00 day: 2022-08-31</option>
</select>
</td>
</tr>
sale not deleted
why isn't the form validating?
Well, you are currently overwriting the __init__
method of the form incorrectly.
Try passing in the *args
and **kwargs
as arguments to constructor method of the parent class.
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
self.fields['id'] = forms.ChoiceField(
label="Sale", choices=[(i.id, i) for i in Sales.objects.all()], required=True)