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yes, i was.

can i set a many to many with just a list of pks?

worth trying

Yeah, you can, IIRC.

instance.related_set.add(*foo)

Where foo is a list of pks.

mar77i: bleach?

theWhisper_: yes, bleach... it's a very useful lib

schinckel: I assume the instance needs to have a pk

Yeah, the instance must have been saved.

schinckel: can i expand a queryset with *

?

djapo: I'm not sure. Maybe. If not, you could *list(qs)

Try it and see.

alright i need some guidence here

i have this f_requests = Friend.objects.filter(following=request.user, state='req').exclude(creator=request.user)

now this will return the objects but not the friend requests

schinckel: i get invalid syntax

for both *qs and *list(qs)

Inside a function call?

schinckel: yes

foo(*User.objects.all()) works for me.

print(*qs)

For some reason, print(*x) does that.

hmmm, weird

yeah, it also does it for regular lists .. neat

ok will try instance.exp.add(*qs)

ok so how i update a field of a manytomany table?

You mean on a through model?

you access it directly, instead of via the m2m

hello i want to redirect from one url to the other while using a token of the old url in the new

access it directly?

i have a field on a m2m model called satte

state

i wan tto update it to a different value

theWhisper_: as schinckel asked... on the through model, or on the target of the m2m?

i dont understand that question

djapo: where did the token come from?

theWhisper_: does your ManyToManyField have a through= parameter?

i have a model m2m which you helped me create that has creator = foreignKey, following = ForeignKey and state = charfield

theWhisper_: in short, you're not giving us enough detail to answer your question... and your wording just makes it more ambiguous

so you _are_ talking about the "through" table

i have one record in that table which i want to update

i guess

thts the only table yes

in that case, stop treating it as a m2m, start accessing it via the foreign key

but for a record

don't guess... know

what you mean accessing by foreignkey?

let me show you a dpaste

good

the "through" table will have a foreign key to each side of the M2M, right?

FunkyBob: https://dpaste.de/2Pes

FunkyBob: right

and i thats how i am getting the value yes

FunkyBob: my problem is when updatin gone record

set the value on the model instance you got... save it..

acc_friend = Friend.objects.get(creator=user, following=request.user, state='req')

that gets you your Friend instance

is that what you want to update a value on?

or is it something else you want to change?

yes thats what i want to change the value on

to that friend instance

state i wan tto change it

acc_friend.state = 'acc' ; acc_friend.save()

exactly what i did yep!

i am strating to get this

this might not be efficient though

efficiency can come later

I have this issue when using django_bootstrap4 and messages. I want to handle messages myself, but when I use the bootstrap_form tag to render a form, it takes control of my errors. Has anyone else had this issue and or found a way around it?

err... no

when I do use boostrap in the front end, I use django-sniplates to help with rendering...

Ahh ok I will look into that :)

Also has anyone had an issue csrf and Edge?

I've been trying Friend.objects.order_by('?').first() but it always comes back with None

:(

FunkyBob: sorry for late responce, the token is part of the url

so i can capture it with a regex

FunkyBob: so i have a little bit of an issue here