In my django application the form never returns true even if I add the same data as in the admin application. My model.py looks like:
from django.db import models
from django.db.models import ImageField, signals
from django.dispatch import dispatcher
from django.forms import ModelForm
# Create your models here.
class Image(models.Model):
emailAddress = models.EmailField(max_length=75)
image = ImageField(upload_to='photos')
caption = models.CharField(max_length=100)
class UploadForm(ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Image
My views.py looks like:
from django.http import HttpResponse, HttpResponseRedirect
from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
from competition.models import Image, UploadForm
# Create your views here.
def index(request):
images = Image.objects.all().order_by('emailAddress')
return render_to_response('images/index.html', {'images': images})
def uploadImage(request):
if request.method == 'POST': # If the form has been submitted...
form = UploadForm(request.POST) # A form bound to the POST data
if form.is_valid(): # All validation rules pass
emailAddress = form.cleaned_data['emailAddress']
image = form.cleaned_data['image']
caption = form.cleaned_data['caption']
i = Image(emailAddress=emailAddress, image = image, caption = caption)
i.save()
return HttpResponseRedirect('../image/')
else:
return render_to_response('images/upload.html', {'form': form})
else:
form = UploadForm() # An unbound form
return render_to_response('images/upload.html', {'form': form})
My template looks like:
<html>
<body>
<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="/image/uploadImage" method="post">{% csrf_token %}
{{ form.as_p }}
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
I can get it work correctly if I use the admin application but need a generic form and this does’t work as it keeps asking for a either the email address or image (the error appears above the image field). So why might my form not be valid?
You need to instantiate your form with request.FILES as well as request.POST.
As an aside, you can save the model form instead of creating the Image by hand in the view.