I'm having difficulty accessing the data submitted through my formset. Here is my code:
Template:
<form action="" method="post">
{% csrf_token %}
{{ formset.management_form }}
{% for form in formset %}
{{ form.as_p }}
{% endfor %}
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
View:
def addMembers(request, id, members):
if request.user.is_authenticated():
members = int(members)
MemberFormSet = formset_factory(MemberForm, extra = members)
if request.method == 'POST':
print 'post'
formset = MemberFormSet(request.POST)
if formset.is_valid():
cd = formset.cleaned_data
for f in formset:
first_name = cd.first_name
last_name = cd.last_name
email = cd.email
house = House.objects.get(id = id)
member = Member(first_name = first_name, last_name = last_name, email = email, house = house, created_on = timezone.now())
member.save()
return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('houses:controlPanel'))
else:
formset = MemberFormSet()
return render_to_response('houses/add_members.html', {'formset' : formset}, context_instance = RequestContext(request))
return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('allauth.account.views.login'))
I've tried several ways of accessing the data aside from what is currently written including:
f['attribute']
cd['attribute']
request.POST['attribute']
formset.cleaned_data['attribute']
I get errors ranging from u"Key 'email' not found in Form"
to list indices must be integers, not str
How should I be accessing the data submitted by a formset? Django's documentation fails to give a clear answer to this and searching around I find many different ways but none that have worked yet. Thanks for your help.
cd is a dictionary. Also, you might want to fetch the dictionary values from individual forms rather than the formset
if request.method == 'POST':
formset = MemberFormSet(request.POST)
if formset.is_valid():
for f in formset:
cd = f.cleaned_data
first_name = cd.get('first_name')
last_name = cd.get('last_name')
email = cd.get('email')
house = House.objects.get(id = id)
member = Member(first_name = first_name, last_name = last_name, email = email, house = house, created_on = timezone.now())
member.save()
return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('houses:controlPanel'))