Question

I have a form that has disabled select box. I have this function in UpdateForm():

def clean_job(self):
    f = self.fields['job'].widget.attrs
    if f.has_key('disabled') and f['disabled'] == 'disabled' :
        return self.instance.job
    else:
        return self.cleaned_data['job']

But when submitting the form I have this error : Key 'job' not found in <QueryDict:
How can I assign a key for a disabled selectbox?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You don’t have to send send something for job to the server. What you have to do is properly handle exceptions in your code. Accessing a key directly in a dictionary will result in an error if that key doesn’t exist, so you simply don’t do that. Instead, use the get method on the dict, or QueryDict in this case.

job = request.POST.get('job') # stores `None` if doesn't exist
if job is not None:
    # do something

Or you can provide a default value:

job = request.POST.get('job', 'default job')