#django

how do i debug this? 'WSGIRequest' object has no attribute 'user'

i'm trying to add a custom authentication middleware

most places say that you need to make sure django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware is added, but i have that.

if i comment out my custom middleware, my /admin/ page loads just fine. if i add it in again, it give sme that warning.

simensen, post your middleware. You might get an answer that way.

i'm using this: https://bitbucket.org/sannies/django-crowd-back...

What version of Django are you using?

1.4.1

ok, now post an actual traceback.

joshuajoshua: ok, i'll see if i can reproduce it. i disabled the middleware and it still had me logged in so it showed the admin root. i reenabled the middleware and it still let me see the admin root? so i'm not sure what the difference is unless it was something weird with an old session.

yeah, before adding something like this, you'll want to trash the sessions db

How should I be using forms in django? So far I've just been building them in the templates and handling them in views. Should I start using the form class or is it OK to get along without it? It hasn't been necessary so far.

seagreen, wow, that's definitely the hard way.

Ideally a form is built from a subset of fields on a model and the template is built automatically. Using model froms even take care of the cleaning and saving.

OK, so I should actually learn to use form classes:)

Yes, that like the first thing you should have learned when you started using django

Hahaha. What can I say? It works fine without them.

anyone here tried to make a tic tac toe game in Django?

Forms are VERY powerful and require zero work when you use the ModelForm functionality.

exit2, It's a web framework, how is tic tac toe relevant?

I have a ModelForm with a ManyToMany field. I need to override the ManyToMany widget and make it use a ChoiceField. I also need to set the choices of the field dynamically. I'm trying to set the choices using this queryset, but I get no choices in the drop down:

number_form.fields['rooms'].queryset = Room.objects.filter(created_by=request.user, deleted_at=None)

joshuajoshua: yeah maybe I should just do it all in JS instead of Python

alexkane, Why not override the entire field to a choicefield? No widget swapping required. You can then set the queryset in the __init__ method of the form.

well I did that

rooms = forms.ChoiceField(label='Room',choices=())

post your code

a choicefield and a ModelChoiceField are two differnt types ;)

hmm...

A modelchoicefield has a queryset parameter, a choicefield doesn't

queryset param

right

looking at the docs now

just change your code to rooms = forms.ModelChoiceField(label='Room', queryset=Room.objects.none()) then define the queryset in init

awesome, thanks

no prob

joshuajoshua: I think I need to do something like this, but it's throwing an exception complaining about self not being defined http://pastebin.com/QMPax7mw

alexkane, Where is self.room_queryset coming from?

im passing it in the NumberForm constructor

room_qs = Room.objects.filter(created_by=request.user, deleted_at=None)

number_form = NumberForm(initial={'country':'US','routing_rule':'conference_room'}, room_queryset=room_qs)

Then it will not be available outside init

so the field defenition will have to have queryset = Room.objects.non()

queryset = Room.objects.none()

oh I thought this would make it an instance car self.room_queryset = room_queryset

ok

as for the "self" thing...

oh

it works now, I should have just done what you said to begin with :-)

cool

make sense?

it actually works with my original code after I added this

queryset = Room.objects.none()

I'd not do that though.

hello

actually when I did that it told me that super doesnt take kwargs

What I posted is the commonly accepted way. Your way might die in a newer version of Django :D

ok I'm going to change it to your way...

alexkane, it should be fine with the 88kwargs defined hmmm

trying again..

spenatmannen, Howdy

trying to generate documentation for my django-project

anynoe done this before?

yeah it's telling me

super does not take keyword arguments

for this line

super(NumberForm, *args, **kwargs).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

Yeah, =I just looked at some of my code: super(FormName, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)