I'm a Django beginner building a blog Website.
The models are: Blog, Threads, Comments. The Blog has Threads, each Thread has Comments.
From the Thread detailview the logged user can create a comment with a form. The created Comment should have its 'thread' value initialized with the current detailview thread object, as thread is a foreignkey to the Thread model in the Comment model.
In the Comment create view, I tried to use form.instance.thread = self.kwargs['pk'] but it brings this error: KeyError at /blogs/comment/create/ 'pk'.
Can you please help me to pass the thread to the form?
models.py:
class Comment(models.Model):
comment_date = models.DateField(default=datetime.date.today, blank=True)
comment_text = models.TextField(max_length=1000, help_text='Enter your comment')
user = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE, null=True)
thread = models.ForeignKey('Thread', on_delete=models.SET_NULL, null=True)
class Meta:
verbose_name = 'comment'
verbose_name_plural = 'comments'
def __str__(self):
return f'{self.id} ({self.thread.thread_name})'
def get_absolute_url(self):
return reverse('comment-detail', args=[str(self.id)])
class Thread(models.Model):
thread_name = models.CharField(max_length=200)
user = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE, null=True)
summary = models.TextField(max_length=1000,)
post_date = models.DateField(null=True, blank=True)
blog = models.ForeignKey('Blog', on_delete=models.CASCADE, null=True)
class Meta:
ordering = ['-post_date']
def __str__(self):
return self.thread_name
def get_absolute_url(self):
return reverse('thread-detail', args=[str(self.id)])
urls.py:
path('thread/<int:pk>/', views.ThreadDetailView.as_view(), name='thread-detail')
path('comment/create/', views.CommentCreate.as_view(), name='comment_create')
views.py:
class ThreadDetailView(generic.DetailView):
model = Thread
class CommentCreate(LoginRequiredMixin, CreateView):
model = Comment
fields = ['comment_text', 'thread']
def form_valid(self, form):
form.instance.user = self.request.user
form.instance.thread = self.kwargs['pk'] # This doesn't work
return super(CommentCreate, self).form_valid(form)
I finally found another way to solve the problem:
By initializing the thread foreignkey in the comment create view :
def CommentCreate(request, thread_id):
thread = Thread.objects.get(id=thread_id)
form = Commentform(request.POST or None, initial={'thread': thread})
....```
By passing the thread id in the template from wich the create view is called:
<a href="{% url 'comment_create' thread.pk %}"> Create a New Comment</a>
and in the view's url:
path('thread/<thread_id>/commentcreate/', views.CommentCreate, name='comment_create'),