Question

I am getting this error when i visit my page:

Caught AttributeError while rendering: ‘WSGIRequest’ object has no attribute ‘get’

The error kicks in on line “17” of my html, which is the line that outputs form.as_p

The html looks like this:

{% extends "base.htm" %}

{% block content %}
{% if story_list %}
    {% for story in story_list %}
        <div class="Story">
            <a href="#">{{  story.title }}</a>
        </div>
    {% endfor %}
{% else %}
    <p>No stories are present - enter one below</p>
{% endif %}
<h3>Create a new story</h3>
<form action="/addStory" method="post">
    {%  csrf_token %}
    {{  form.as_p }} ***THIS IS LINE 17***
    <input type="submit" value="Submit"/>
</form>
{% endblock %}

The problem is i have a view that does two things, and from the django tutorials overrode the get_context_data method to add the second item to the django context. Because, um, that’s what i’m meant to do, riiiiiiiiight?

#for showing of the stories!
class StoryShowView(ListView):
    model = StoryForm

    def get_queryset(self):
        return getStoryItemsForUser(self.request)

    def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
        context = super(StoryShowView,self).get_context_data(**kwargs)
        context['form'] = createNewStoryForm(self.request)
        return context

Where, well, the method createNewStoryForm just does this:

def createNewStoryForm(request):
    return StoryForm(request)

and StoryForm is just this:

class StoryForm(ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = Story
        ordering = ['create_date']

and the Story model is a normal model, that probably isn’t part of the problem, but, hey, i am a cutting and a pasting, so here goes!

class Story(models.Model):
    user = models.ForeignKey(User)
    post = models.ForeignKey(Post)
    title =  models.CharField(max_length=100)
    is_closed = models.BooleanField()
    is_random = models.BooleanField() # for uncategorised stories. Only one of these.
    result = models.CharField(max_length=20) #how did the relo work out?
    create_date = models.DateTimeField('date created')
    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.title

Any ideas what i am doing wrong?

UPDATE:
ah, it was the line::

return StoryForm(request)

I take it i can either pass in a “request.POST” or nothing, is that it?

Answer 1

Probably you’re right and you were passing request instead of request.POST, reqest.GET or request.REQUEST to the constructor of your form. See the doc on how to use forms:

def contact(request):
    if request.method == 'POST': # If the form has been submitted...
        form = ContactForm(request.POST) # A form bound to the POST data
        if form.is_valid(): # All validation rules pass
            # Process the data in form.cleaned_data
            # ...
            return HttpResponseRedirect('/thanks/') # Redirect after POST
    else:
        form = ContactForm() # An unbound form

    return render_to_response('contact.html', {
        'form': form,
    })