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Our steps have a description but don't actually have any content. Let's fix that!
blank=True - A field can be blank (not filled in) in the admin and any other forms based on the model.
default='something' - If no value is supplied for the field, the default 'something' will be put into the record.
If you said migrate when I asked what
else we have to do, you're right.
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Good job remembering that dance.
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You really do get used to
the steps pretty quickly.
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Okay, let's see about adding that field.
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Since we have some existing
rows in the database,
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we're going to have to do something extra.
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You know what, let's just do it.
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Let's open up our models.py.
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Let's add another text
field to the step model.
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So, it doesn't matter where we put this.
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It's not going to care.
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So we're going to put it in here,
and this will be models.textfield.
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Now we want to be sure and
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call it content, because that's the name
we've been using in our template.
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Yeah we can change it here and
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change the template, but
who's gonna remember to do all that?
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So, since we changed the data model,
we've changed the database.
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Right?
Or, we want to.
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Then, we should also change
the database with a migration.
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So, we're gonna CONTROL- C to quit.
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And, if you remember how to do this,
you're gonna makemigrations for courses.
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And, we're gonna run this,
and we just got a message.
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We haven't gotten this message before.
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Let's read this and see what this says.
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So we're trying to add a non-nullable
field content to step without a default.
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Can't do that, the database needs
something to populate existing rows, so
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please provide a fix.
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I have to provide a one off default now,
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which would be set on all
of the existing rows.
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Or quit, and add a default in models.py.
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The problem is that we've added
this field, our content field, and
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it can't be null.
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Since this is just listed as a text field,
there has to be something in that field.
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Or Django has to know what to do with it,
if there's nothing in that field.
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That would be fine if we didn't have
existing rows in the database, but we do.
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We have some steps that
we've already made.
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So, Django doesn't know what to do with
the rows that are already in the database.
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Our database doesn't know what to
let Django do with the rows that
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are already in the database.
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So basically Django and
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the database have thrown up their
hands,and going hey tell us what to do.
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So we can either provide
an existing default for
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all the ones that have
already been put in.
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And that'll only happen now.
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It won't happen when we run
it on another database.
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Or, we can quit, and
we can set a default in the model.
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And that will happen no matter what.
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I think we should quit and
change the model.
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So, I'll hit control two,
I guess I should hit two, but whatever.
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Most of the time we would
let our field be nullable.
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Which means that it can hold no data.
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But since this is a text field,
that creates
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a weird way of having two false values for
empty text, or character fields.
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We don't want that.
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We want one single obvious explicit
way of having a false value.
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So, let's just set that.
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What we're gonna do is we're gonna
come over here to our tex' field, and
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we're gonna set, blank equals true.
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And that controls the form in our admin.
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So, it says, hey,
you don't have to get a value here.
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And the default,
if they don't put anything in,
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is going to be an empty string.
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So the worst case scenario,
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the nobody provided any data scenario,
is an empty string.
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Which is fine,
an empty string is a little bit of data.
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And it can be blank in the form,
we don't have to have value in the form.
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Okay, so,
let's try making this migration again.
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Cool, it made the migration.
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And now we can go ahead and
migrate our model.
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There we go.
Done and it's okay.
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No problems.
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So, let's go add some content
to our step in the admin.
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So that means we need to run server again.
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And let's see,
we're looking at using the shell.
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So let's refresh this page.
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Now we have a content field for
each of these.
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So here's using the shell,
here's our content.
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So let's add in a little
bit of stuff here.
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So we'll say launch the shell with python.
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You can exit the shell by entering exit or
Quit.
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You can also exit the shell
by pressing Ctrl+D.
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Okay.
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So let's go save that.
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And let's come over here and
refresh our page.
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And here's each of our lines.
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And, if we inspect one of these.
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We see <p> tags around it.
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So that's great,
we got paragraphs just like we wanted.
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You might want to go back
through our other templates, and
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put the line breaks filter into places
where we printed out the descriptions.
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You know something we've been
missing through this entire course?
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We don't have a single link anywhere.
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We should use anchor tags.
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They're a great part of HTML.
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