Newbie question

[Moose Smith]

I have a table which holds simple data like addresses. Created a form which displays the records in the form and allows the user to select a record "address" to edit. 

I want this edit function to be generic so it will work on any table without me having to define fields etc... and using  ModelForm I accomplished by goal. 

Django creates a form and using instance='myrecord' it even populated the fields in the form with the record I want to edit. I can edit my fields  and now it is time to save the changes back to the database.

I found a .save() method for 

# Create a form to edit an existing Article, but use

# POST data to populate the form.

>>> a = Article.objects.get(pk=1)

>>> f = ArticleForm(request.POST, instance=a) >>> f.save()

My question is this:

The .save method discuss in the Django Documentation above is a method of ModelForm but I have rendered my form and when I hit the SUBMIT button the edited fields are returned in a WSGI type object which does not have a save method.

I can use the POST data and pass the PK and so on, and update the record manually with some code. BUT WHAT is the use of a .SAVE method on a ModelForm. In order to edit the form I need to RENDER it right?

Is there a way to return the ModelForm object with the edited fields and then save back to the database?

Thanks 

Moose

 

[Lalit Suthar]

try form.save(commit=False)

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