Why am I not POSTing data to database Django/Python

Question

I am unable to get the data to my database am I missing something. Followed a couple tutorials, tried my own tweaking but no luck thus far. I m not getting any errors but when I click submit on the form my database is not populating.

My View

def createUser(request):
    # form = UserForm()
    args = {}    

    if request.method=='POST':
        userform = UserForm(request.POST)
        petform = PetForm(request.POST)

        if userform.is_valid() and petform.is_valid():
            newuser = userform.save()
            newpet = petform.save(False)

            newpet.newuser = newuser
            newpet.save()
            return render(request, 'pet_list.html' )
    else:
        userform = UserForm()
        petform = PetForm()

    args.update(csrf(request))
    args['userform'] = userform
    args['petform'] = petform
    return render(request, 'add_user_pet.html', args)

My Template

  <form action="/ " method="POST" >
    {% csrf_token %} 
    <h3 class="details">User Info</h3>
      {{userform}}
      <h3 class="details">Pet Info</h3>
      {{petform}}

  <input type="submit"/>
  </form>

Form.py

class UserForm(forms.ModelForm):
    name = NameField()
    email = forms.CharField(label='E-mail',widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={"placeholder":"Whats your email"}))

    class Meta:
        model = User
        fields = ['name', 'email']

#################################################


class PetForm(forms.ModelForm):

    class Meta:
        model = Pet
        fields = [
            'name', 
            'submitter',
            'species',
            'breed',
            'description',
            'sex',
            'age'
            ]

My Urls.py

urlpatterns = [
    path('', views.home, name='home'),
    path('user_list', views.userlist, name='userlist'),
    path('pet_list', views.petList, name='petlist'),
    path('user_pet', views.userPet, name='userpet'),
    path('add_user_pet', views.createUser, name='add_user_pet')
    path('user_detail/<int:user_id>', views.userdetail, name='detail'),

Share your urls.py.

willeM_ Van Onsem
– willeM_ Van Onsem

2021-05-26 05:26:22 +00:00
Commented May 26, 2021 at 5:26 — willeM_ Van Onsem
– willeM_ Van Onsem, Commented May 26, 2021 at 5:26

Razenstein · Accepted Answer · 2021-05-26 05:59:32Z

1

Your form action points to "/" which is going to home view but you want to call "add_user_pet" to direct your POST to createUser view.

 <form action="/ " method="POST" >

should be

 <form action="add_user_pet" method="POST" >

the more "django" way would be to not put the url directly but use the name of the path as you defined it in urlspatterns:

 <form action="{% url 'add_user_pet' %}" method="POST" >

in this way you are using the urlspatterns name.

answered May 26, 2021 at 5:59

Razenstein

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abtrini Over a year ago

Tried this but still not populating database.

Razenstein Over a year ago

1) do you see the POST request in your server terminal? 2) do you get the pet_list.html rendered? 3) what is the result of your is_valid() checks .... I would debug with prints to see what happens step by step

abtrini Over a year ago

Trying this approach....will let you know the outcome

abtrini Over a year ago

I can now see the requested data in my terminal and the pet_list is now being rendered. But for some reason form aint valid....

abtrini Over a year ago

thank you. It now works.......in my views file I changed newpet.newuser to newpet.user. as 'user;' is the foregn key in my Pet model. Also fixed some tab spaces. That along with your input solved it.

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