Try the following:
On 10/27/05, Flavio Curella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> hi all, I've this model:
>
> from django.core import meta
> from django.models.auth import User
>
> class Article(meta.Model):
> title = meta.CharField(maxlength=255)
> content = meta.TextField()
> author = meta.ForeignKey(User) // problem is here, I think
> categories = meta.ManyToManyField(Category)
> creation_date = meta.DateTimeField('creation date', auto_now_add=True)
> mod_date = meta.DateTimeField('modification date', auto_now=True)
> file = meta.FileField(upload_to='/Users/go/Sites/django/files/')
>
> class META:
> admin = meta.Admin(
> fields = (
> (None, {'fields': ('title', 'content',
> 'categories')
> }),
> ),
> )
>
> How can I save the field 'author' with the id of current user? I think
> to use 'default' attribute, something like this:
> author = meta.ForeignKey(User, default=???)
> but how can I get current uesre's id? (user.id doesn't work)
>
That code above should work fine (I'm using almost precisely that in
something I'm working on).
Try something like this to get the id:
>>> a = articles.get_list()[0]
>>> auth = a.get_author()
>>> auth.id
cheers,
--joey
