create comment programmatically from CommentForm embedded in another form

[Martin Beroiz]

Hello, 

I'm rather new to Django and I'm trying to include django_comments form in another form a user can choose. 

Basically, the user will fill a custom form (of mine) and possibly leave a comment with a form generated with django_comments. 

In a nutshell, I want to save a comment programmatically from my custom view/form.

A minimal version of my 'rank' view and template is:

from django_comments.forms import CommentForm

@login_required

def rank(request):

    if request.method == "POST":

        rankForm = RankingForm(data=request.POST)

        commForm = CommentForm(data=request.POST)

        if form.is_valid() and commForm.is_valid():

            r = rankForm.save()

            commForm.save()

    else:

        rankForm = RankingForm()

    return render(request, 'rank.html', {'form': rankForm, 'tc_id': '1', ... other stuff })

and in the template:

<form id="rankForm" method="post" action="{% url 'rank' %}" enctype="multipart/form-data">

{% csrf_token %}

        {{ rankForm.as_p }}

{% get_comment_form for my_app.my_model tc_id as comment_form %}

{{ comment_form.comment }}

        {{ comment_form.honeypot }}

{{ comment_form.content_type }}

{{ comment_form.object_pk }}

{{ comment_form.timestamp }}

        {{ comment_form.security_hash }}

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Rank Transient" />

</form>

Django throws an error on this line: commForm = CommentForm(data=request.POST)

TypeError  __init__() takes at least 2 arguments (2 given)

I don't know how to initialize a comment object with the data supplied on the form and save it using the provided methods from django_comments.

I did in the past create a whole Comment() instance from scratch and filled it all with the correct data, but it seemed to me like a hack, bypassing all the security checks built-in in the comment package.

How would I go about to save a comment programmatically from my custom view/form?

Thanks,

Martin.

[Martin Beroiz]

I just found out the CommentForm actually requires to set target_object for initialization.

It should've been

commForm = CommentForm(target_object = myobj, data=request.POST)

Sorry for the noise on the list!