Re: help needed with multiple profile images with UserProfile

Thanks tom,

that worked and now understand what i was doing wrong.

much appreciated.

On Feb 24, 7:08 am, Tom Evans <tevans...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 2:55 PM, richard <pullenjenn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Tom,
>
> > Thanks for your reply. So for clarity i thought i was getting the
> > userprofile to pass into the bound form so that the userprofile_id in
> > the UserProfilePic would get populated/saved. as if i leave the
> > instance as None
> > then i get an error saying that userprofile_id cannot be empty?
>
> Correct. So when you are creating a new UserProfilePic object, you
> will need to populate those fields manually. I know of a couple of
> techniques:
>
> 1) Do it manually:
>
> frm = UserProfilePicForm(request.POST, instance=None)
> if frm.is_valid():
>   instance = frm.save(commit=False)
>   instance.userprofile = user.get_profile()
>   instance.save()
>
> 2) Pass the profile to the form's constructor, override the save
> method and implement the same logic there:
> class UserProfilePicForm(ModelForm):
>   def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
>     self.profile = kwargs.pop('profile')
>   def save(self, commit=True, *args, **kwargs):
>     instance = super(UserProfilePicForm, self).save(commit=False,
> *args, **kwargs)
>     instance.userprofile = self.profile
>     if commit:
>       instance.save()
>     return instance
>   class Meta:
>     model = UserProfilePic
>     fields = ('profilepic',)
>
> >also,
> > is a 1 to may relationship here correct for what i want to achieve?
>
> Probably. You don't want multiple profiles linking to the same picture
> do you? IE each picture has exactly one owner.
>
> Cheers
>
> Tom

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