Question

I’m trying to update the database if an entry is already there if not create a new one.

def saveprofile(request):
    location = request.POST['location']
    email = request.POST['email']
    if request.user.is_authenticated():
        userprofile = UserProfiles(user=request.user)
        if userprofile:
           userprofile.location=location
           userprofile.email=email
           userprofile.save()
           return render_to_response('profile.html',{'pfields':userprofile})
        else:
           userprofile = UserProfiles(user=request.user, location=location, email=email)
           userprofile.save()
           return render_to_response('profile.html',{'pfields':userprofile})

It’s throwing

(1062, “Duplicate entry ’15’ for key ‘user_id'”)

Answer 1

You’ve got to use get for Django to fetch an existing object instead of creating a new one, which is what your call to UserProfiles(user=request.user) is currently doing.

For example:

try:
    userprofile = UserProfiles.objects.get(user=request.user)
except DoesNotExist:
    # create object here.

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