hi,
I am more or less a beginner with django and databases.I was trying to
set the author field of an entry from the request.user instead of
letting the user select from a drop down list of users.I designed the
models like
class Entry(models.Model):
pub_date=models.DateField(default=date.today)
description=models.TextField()
author=models.ForeignKey(User)
class EntryForm(ModelForm):
class Meta:
model=Entry
exclude = ('author',)
In views.py I created an add_entry function,
def add_entry(request,template_name,page_title):
form_data=get_form_data(request)
form=EntryForm(form_data)
if request.method=='POST' and form.is_valid() :
newentry=form.save()
....some other ops...
newentry.author=request.user
newentry.save()
....
However ,when I tried a testcase using
def test_add_entry(self):
self.client.login(username='me',password='mypass')
self.post_data={
'pub_date':'2010-03-08',
'description':'my new
entry'
}
response=self.client.post(reverse('myapp_add_entry'),self.post_data)
I get this IntegrityError, saying that 'null value in column
"author_id" violates not-null constraint'
The error occurs at the first occurrence of line
newentry=form.save() in the add_entry()method
Can someone help me figure out how to add the author value correctly?
since I am using client.login() shouldn't the author field be taken
from the logged in user thru request.user?
thanks
jim
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