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Python Django Forms Model Forms Save a Model Form

Heidi Ulrich
Heidi Ulrich
4,624 Points
Posted by Heidi Ulrich
Heidi Ulrich
4,624 Points

Please find the error in my code

The only error I get is this, and that doesn't help me much. What do I do wrong?

Bummer! Hmm, didn't find the newly-created product.; Hmm, didn't get a redirect for the product_form view as a POST.

products/views.py 
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
from django.shortcuts import render

from . import forms


def product_form(request):
    form = forms.DigitalProductForm()

    if request.method == 'POST':
        if form.is_valid():
            form.save()
            HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('products:create'))

    return render(request, 'products/product_form.html', {form: 'form'})

2 Answers

Chris Freeman
MOD
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,423 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,423 Points

You are close. The hints mentions Instantiate a new form with request.POST this means to use request.POST as an argument to forms.DigitalProductForm()

The results of the HttpResponseRedirect statement should be returned.

Heidi Ulrich
Heidi Ulrich
4,624 Points
Heidi Ulrich
Heidi Ulrich
4,624 Points

Ah, with that, I could solve it! Instantiated the form with the argument, then returned the HttpResponseRedirect :) Thank you!