On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Jer-ming Lin <csie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> plz modify the Incident Model like Report Model,
>
> class Incident(models.Model):
> report = models.ForeignKey(Report)
> INCIDENT_CHOICES = (
> ('SF', 'SegFault'),
> ('ML', 'Memory Leak'),
> ('MC', 'Memory Corruption'),
> )
> type = models.CharField(max_length=2, choices=INCIDENT_CHOICES)
>
> Thanks again. I made the modification, yet I still get the error "Select a
valid choice. SF is not one of the available choices." !
Could it be that when the form is accepting input it is getting confused
because the report has a type attribute and so does the incident.
BR
> Titan
>
> 2010/12/14 john doe <thebiggestbangthe...@gmail.com>:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Titan, Jer-ming Lin <csie...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi John,
> >>
> >> each element in the choices is a two elements tuple. first one is
> >> the real data will be saved in the database and second one will
> >> present on the form. therefore, the max_length of 'type' field must be
> >> modified to fit the first element in the choices tuple. Plz see the
> >> following code, i change the first element and the type field's
> >> max_length.
> >>
> >> REPORT_CHOICES = (
> >> ('BR', 'Bug Report'),
> >> ('UN', 'Unknown Problem'),
> >> )
> >> type = models.CharField(max_length=2, choices=REPORT_CHOICES)
> >
> > Hi Titan, thank you. Yes that was something I could correct.
> >
> > However the problem of the error which says "Select a valid choice. SF:
> Seg
> > Fault is not one of the available choices."
> > still remains. Any insight here?
> >
> >>
> >> ps: you can also google some pages which use the IntegerField to
> >> save the choices.
> >>
> >> BR
> >> Titan
> >>
> >> On Dec 14, 9:04 am, john doe <thebiggestbangthe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Dear all,
> >> > I am making a small Django app for a bug tracking system to get
> >> > my
> >> > head round this awesome framework. I am facing a problem wherein when
> >> > accepting input via a form generated by models. The classes are listed
> >> > below
> >> > (not in its entirety).
> >> >
> >> > [code]
> >> > class Report(models.Model):
> >> > #type = models.CharField(max_length=200)
> >> > REPORT_CHOICES = (
> >> > ('BR: Bug Report', 'Bug Report'),
> >> > ('UN: Unknown Problem', 'Unknown Problem'),
> >> > )
> >> > type = models.CharField(max_length=1, choices=REPORT_CHOICES)
> >> > submitter = models.CharField(max_length=200, default='Anonymous')
> >> > ...
> >> > ...
> >> > class Incident(models.Model):
> >> > report = models.ForeignKey(Report)
> >> > INCIDENT_CHOICES = (
> >> > ('SF: Seg Fault', 'SegFault'),
> >> > ('ML: Memory Leak', 'Memory Leak'),
> >> > ('MC: Memory Corruption', 'Memory Corruption'),
> >> > )
> >> > type = models.CharField(max_length=1, choices=INCIDENT_CHOICES)
> >> > #description of the incident
> >> > description = models.CharField(max_length=20000)
> >> > ...
> >> > ...
> >> > [/code]
> >> >
> >> > I have generated a form wherein a user can enter a report, and
> multiple
> >> > incidents related to the report. When I use the function to accept the
> >> > input, not actually processing anything I get "Select a valid choice.
> >> > SF:
> >> > Seg Fault is not one of the available choices." .
> >> >
> >> > The HTML page code looks like below:
> >> > [code]
> >> > <h2>Submit a report</h2>
> >> > {% if new_report_form %}
> >> > <ul>
> >> > <form action="/submit_new_report/" method="post">
> >> > {{ new_report_form.non_field_errors }}
> >> > <div class="reportType">
> >> > {{ new_report_form.type.errors }}
> >> > <label for="id_reporttype">Type of Report:</label>
> >> > {{ new_report_form.type }}
> >> > </div>
> >> > <div class="incidentType">
> >> > {{ new_incident_form.type.errors }}
> >> > <label for="id_incidenttype">Type of Incident:</label>
> >> > {{ new_incident_form.type }}
> >> > </div>
> >> > ...
> >> > ...
> >> > [/code]
> >> >
> >> > The form.is_valid() call is basically saying that there's a problem
> with
> >> > validating the form input because the choice selected for the
> >> > incident-type
> >> > is not valid. However, in the model description, the choices are
> clearly
> >> > valid and in the form I have different identifiers too. Can someone
> >> > please
> >> > provide some advice as to why this might be happening.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks in advance.
> >>
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