Form Wizard: store the session values

[Karim]

When I click on the link for my form, I would like to restore the session values if the user accidentally left the wizard or other cases happened.

How I can restore the session and initialize the FormWizard with the session values? Everytime I click on the link to render the view I got an empty form.

Thank you. 

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Karim N. Gorjux

[Karim]

I'm trying to get the data from the session. The SessionWizard store the data in the session

session_data = request.session[wizard_key_form]['step_data']

at this point session_data is the dictionary with the data in the form filled by the user.

But this doesn't work

ServiceCreationWizard.as_view(

        FORMS,

        initial_dict=session_data,

    )(request)

Working with ipdb and django toolbar and reading the docs here[1] seems to me that the fields name in the session dictionary are a little different from the forma requested by the initial_dict

initial_dict wants something like

initial = {

...     '0': {'subject': 'Hello', 'sender': 'us...@example.com'},

...     '1': {'message': 'Hi there!'}

... }

but session are stored in this way

 u'step_data': {

      u'0': {u'0-subject': u'Hello', u'0-sender': u'us...@example.com'}

      u'1': {u'1-message': u'Hi there!'},

}

Do I have to convert all the keys name to pass the session values to the initial_dict? Maybe there is a better way to backup and restore the session?

Thank you

[1] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/ref/contrib/formtools/form-wizard/#django.contrib.formtools.wizard.views.WizardView.initial_dict

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Karim <lemie...@gmail.com> wrote:

When I click on the link for my form,

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Karim N. Gorjux

[Karim]

Solved with a very easy approach.

I override the WizardView get method and I use a session variable to understand if the user want to restore the edit or create a new form

   def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):

        """

        This method override the WizardView handling the restore of the session

        if the value request.session['restore-wizard'] is True

        """

        try:

            if request.session['restore-wizard']:

                return self.render(self.get_form())

        except KeyError:

            # just call the default super get

            return super(ServiceCreationWizard, self).get(request, *args, **kwargs

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Karim N. Gorjux