I have been using django to build a Blog, and when i tried to make a comment section under each post i get the comment icon(where i can type some comments) but when i post the comment i get the error straight away, which is "ContentType matching query does not exist".
I tried to find the problem on stack and youtube but they said that solving this problem requires experience on dumpdata
class Comment(models.Model):
user = models.ForeignKey(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, default=1, null=True, on_delete=models.SET_NULL)
content_type = models.ForeignKey(ContentType, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
object_id = models.PositiveIntegerField()
content_object = GenericForeignKey('content_type', 'object_id')
content = models.TextField()
timestamp = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True, auto_now=False)
objects = CommentManager()
def blog_post_detail_view(request, slug):
instance = get_object_or_404(BlogPost, slug=slug)
share_string = quote_plus(instance.content)
initial_data = {
'content_type': instance.get_content_type,
'object_id': instance.id
}
form = CommentForm(request.POST or None, initial=initial_data)
if form.is_valid():
c_type = form.cleaned_data.get('content_type')
content_type = ContentType.objects.get(model=c_type)
obj_id = form.cleaned_data.get('object_id')
content_data = form.cleaned_data.get('content')
new_comment, created = Comment.objects.get_or_create(
user=request.user,
content_type=content_type,
object_id=obj_id,
content=content_data
)
comments = instance.comments
template_name = 'blog/detail.html'
context = {
"object": instance,
'comments': comments,
'share_string': share_string,
'comment_form': form
}
return render(request, template_name, context)
from django import forms
from .models import Comment
class CommentForm(forms.Form):
content_type = forms.CharField(widget=forms.HiddenInput)
object_id = forms.IntegerField(widget=forms.HiddenInput)
content = forms.CharField(widget=forms.Textarea)
So basically i should have gotten my comment posted but instead i get that error:"ContentType matching query does not exist".
Your CommentForm
should be a ModelForm
, you can set the widgets in the Meta.widgets
of the ModelForm
class CommentForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Meta
fields = ('content_type', 'object_id', 'content')
widgets = {
'content_type': forms.HiddenInput,
'object_id': forms.HiddenInput,
}
This way form.cleaned_data.get('content_type')
will contain the actual ContentType object so you don't have to do ContentType.objects.get