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Python Build a Social Network with Flask Broadcasting Lunch Order Form

Boris Kowalski
Boris Kowalski
13,589 Points
Posted by Boris Kowalski
Boris Kowalski
13,589 Points

Lunch order form, Challenge Task 3 of 3: Finally, you need to instantiate, process, and send LunchOrde

In the last stage of the challenge I use this code in lunch.py. It does not work i already came back to the challenge after a while and rewrote the code for it but I can not advance here.

@app.route('/order', methods=('GET', 'POST'))
def order_lunch():
    form = forms.LunchOrderForm()
    if form.validate_on_submit():
        models.Order(
            order = form.order.data,
            date = form.date.data,
            user = current_user
        )
    return render_template('lunch.html', form=form)

Where sits the error?

1 Answer

Andreas cormack
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Andreas cormack
Python Web Development Techdegree Graduate 33,011 Points

Hi Boris You need to create an instance of the LunchOrder model, you are calling a model called order??. You also need to call the create method on the model to create a new instance. I always used g.user._get_current_object() because assigning g.user to current_user never worked for me, may be someone else encountered this and solved it. Try the code below it should pass.

@app.route('/order', methods=('GET', 'POST'))
def order_lunch():
  form = forms.LunchOrderForm()
  if form.validate_on_submit():
    models.LunchOrder.create(
            order = form.order.data,
            date = form.date.data,
            user = g.user._get_current_object()
        )
  return render_template('lunch.html',form=form)

hope this helps

Boris Kowalski
Boris Kowalski
13,589 Points
Boris Kowalski
Boris Kowalski
13,589 Points

Thanks Andreas, that was it. After i posted the question and looking the next few videos i stumbled upon the create method and tried it directly. But it did not work.

It would be nice when someone could tell the difference between the not working current_user and g.user._get_current_object