[ Can´t save images on Django Model after extending it ]
I´m having a really hard time with this. I have extended the Django user model. I created a separate app call "userprofile" (i have 2 apps: 'userprofile' and 'Administration') with new models.py:
class UserProfile(models.Model):
user = models.ForeignKey(User, unique=True)
profile_image = models.ImageField(upload_to="/perfil/", blank=True, null=True)
User.profile = property(lambda u: UserProfile.objects.get_or_create(user = u)[0])
the urls.py:
urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^perfil/$', 'apps.userprofile.views.user_profile', name= 'perfil'),
)
and a views.py:
# Create your views here.
from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
from django.core.context_processors import csrf
from forms import UserProfileForm
from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
@login_required
def user_profile(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
form = UserProfileForm(request.POST, request.FILES)
if form.is_valid():
form.save()
return HttpResponseRedirect('../index')
else:
user = request.user
profile = user.profile
form = UserProfileForm(instance = profile)
args = {}
args.update(csrf(request))
args['form'] = form
return render_to_response('profile.html', args)
and of course a forms.py:
from django import forms
from models import UserProfile
from crispy_forms.helper import FormHelper
from crispy_forms.layout import Submit, Layout
from crispy_forms.bootstrap import (FormActions, )
class UserProfileForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = UserProfile
helper = FormHelper()
helper.form_method = 'POST'
helper.layout = Layout(
'profile_image',
FormActions(Submit('Editar', 'Editar', css_class= 'btn-primary'))
)
def save(self, commit=True):
fact = super(UserProfileForm, self).save(commit=False)
if commit:
fact.save()
return fact
So, what i´m trying to do is to let the user upload an image an let it use it as a profile image. I set the:
AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE = 'apps.userprofile.UserProfile' (the app is inside a folder call 'apps' that´s why the first 'apps' before userprofile)
in the settings.py, and i added the urls of 'userprofile' to the main project. Now I have the template where i can upload an image, the problem is that the image is never saved in the database so I can´t call a function to display the image in a template, let´s say the User Profile page.
Does anyone looking at the code knows what I am doing wrong?
Answer 1
According to the Django 1.7 docs, ModelForm
classes must explicitly specify which fields should be updated when the save()
method is called. Try adding fields = __all__
to your UserProfileForm
class meta.
Relevant section of ModelForm documentation
Notice the first line of the Note in that link:
Any fields not included in a form by the above logic will not be set by the form’s save() method.
I am still learning Django myself but that's what I would try first. :)