I am an absolutely newb to GAE and am trying my first sample application.
I have written a simple HTMl form. on clicking submit, the details in the fields need to be saved in the datastore.
My problem is that I am getting datatype exceptions and i have no idea where i am going wrong
import cgi
import datetime
import urllib
import wsgiref.handlers
import os
from google.appengine.ext.webapp import template
from google.appengine.ext import db
from google.appengine.api import users
from google.appengine.ext import webapp
from google.appengine.ext.webapp.util import run_wsgi_app
class Champion(db.Model):
champion_first_name = db.StringProperty()
champion_last_name = db.StringProperty()
champion_email = db.EmailProperty()
champion_phone_code = db.IntegerProperty()
champion_phone_number = db.IntegerProperty()
diabetic_first_name = db.StringProperty()
diabetic_last_name = db.StringProperty()
diabetic_age = db.IntegerProperty()
diabetic_gender = db.StringProperty()
diabetic_email = db.EmailProperty()
diabetic_phone_code = db.IntegerProperty()
diabetic_phone_number = db.IntegerProperty()
diabetic_city = db.StringProperty()
diabetic_zipcode = db.IntegerProperty()
diabetic_since = db.IntegerProperty()
diabetic_relationship = db.StringProperty()
checkup_date = db.DateProperty ()
md_advert_feedback = db.StringProperty()
timestamp = db.DateTimeProperty(auto_now_add=True)
class MainPage(webapp.RequestHandler):
def get(self):
template_values = {}
path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'main.html')
self.response.out.write(template.render(path, template_values))
def post(self):
pledge_data = Champion(champion_first_name = cgi.escape(self.request.get('champ_first_name')),
champion_last_name = cgi.escape(self.request.get('champ_last_name')),
champion_email = cgi.escape(self.request.get('champ_email')),
champion_phone_code = cgi.escape(self.request.get('champ_phone_code')),
champion_phone_number = cgi.escape(self.request.get('champ_phone_number')),
diabetic_first_name = cgi.escape(self.request.get('diab_first_name')),
diabetic_last_name = cgi.escape(self.request.get('diab_last_name')),
diabetic_age = cgi.escape(self.request.get('diab_age')),
diabetic_gender = cgi.escape(self.request.get('diab_gender')),
diabetic_email = cgi.escape(self.request.get('diab_email')),
diabetic_phone_code = cgi.escape(self.request.get('diab_phone_code')),
diabetic_phone_number = cgi.escape(self.request.get('diab_phone_number')),
diabetic_city = cgi.escape(self.request.get('diab_city')),
diabetic_zipcode = cgi.escape(self.request.get('diab_zip')))
# diabetic_since = cgi.escape(int(self.request.get('diab_since'))))
# diabetic_relationship = cgi.escape(self.request.get('diab_relationship')),
# md_advert_feedback = cgi.escape(self.request.get('md_ad_feedback'))
# checkup_date = cgi.escape(self.request.get('checkup_date')),
# )
pledge_data.put()
application = webapp.WSGIApplication([
('/', MainPage),
], debug=True)
def main():
run_wsgi_app(application)
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
The error i am getting is
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\google_appengine\google\appengine\ext\webapp\_webapp25.py", line 703, in __call__
handler.post(*groups)
File "C:\Users\Rishav\Documents\Google App Engine\helloworld\main.py", line 54, in post
diabetic_zipcode = cgi.escape(self.request.get('diab_zip')))
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\google_appengine\google\appengine\ext\db\__init__.py", line 945, in __init__
prop.__set__(self, value)
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\google_appengine\google\appengine\ext\db\__init__.py", line 599, in __set__
value = self.validate(value)
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\google_appengine\google\appengine\ext\db\__init__.py", line 3141, in validate
% (self.name, type(value).__name__))
BadValueError: Property champion_phone_number must be an int or long, not a unicode
I am absolutely certain the answer is gonna make me faceplam, but i am just not getting it now. I believe I have put in the correct db model.
also, it makes no difference if I actually input any data in the webform form field or not. I get the same error even when i leave the fields null and then hit submit.
EDIT:
OP here.
in case anyone is interested in what i did;
once I converted all required field data to int, i found another error.
I would get valueerror eception if any of my fields had null value.
Now i want to leave all my data entry validation on the client side.
so i changed my code to;
def post(self):
pledge_data = Champion()
try:
pledge_data.champion_first_name = cgi.escape(self.request.get('champ_first_name'))
pledge_data.champion_last_name = cgi.escape(self.request.get('champ_last_name'))
pledge_data.champion_email = cgi.escape(self.request.get('champ_email'))
pledge_data.champion_phone_code = int(cgi.escape(self.request.get('champ_phone_code')))
pledge_data.champion_phone_number = int(cgi.escape(self.request.get('champ_phone_number')))
pledge_data.diabetic_first_name = cgi.escape(self.request.get('diab_first_name'))
pledge_data.diabetic_last_name = cgi.escape(self.request.get('diab_last_name'))
pledge_data.diabetic_age = int(cgi.escape(self.request.get('diab_age')))
pledge_data.diabetic_gender = cgi.escape(self.request.get('diab_gender'))
pledge_data.diabetic_email = cgi.escape(self.request.get('diab_email'))
pledge_data.diabetic_phone_code = int(cgi.escape(self.request.get('diab_phone_code')))
pledge_data.diabetic_phone_number = int(cgi.escape(self.request.get('diab_phone_number')))
pledge_data.diabetic_city = cgi.escape(self.request.get('diab_city'))
pledge_data.diabetic_zipcode = int(cgi.escape(self.request.get('diab_zip')))
pledge_data.diabetic_since = int(cgi.escape(self.request.get('diab_since')))
# diabetic_relationship = cgi.escape(self.request.get('diab_relationship')),
# md_advert_feedback = cgi.escape(self.request.get('md_ad_feedback'))
# checkup_date = cgi.escape(self.request.get('checkup_date')),
# )
except ValueError:
pass
pledge_data.put()
The quick fix is to explicitly cast, e.g.: