Thank you good sir! You have put an end to my week long head ache!

On Thursday, June 20, 2013 12:27:36 PM UTC-4, Jason Arnst-Goodrich wrote:
>
> This is a common problem to run into.
>
> def form_valid(self, form): 
>
> customer = form.save(commit=False)
>
> customer.store = self.request.user.active_profile.store
>
> customer.save() 
>
> return super(CustomerInformationView, self).save(form)
>
>
> super(CustomerInformationView, self).save(form)doesn't really make sense 
> to do here for 2 reasons:
>
> 1. You just performed the model save manually the line above.
> 2. It's going to call save again except this time the form value for store 
> is in fact Null (because it's blank in the form) and will raise the error.
>
> So instead of calling super() - just return a httpresponse instead because 
> that's really all you want in this case.
> return HttpResponseRedirect(self.get_success_url())
>
> (make sure you ahve the success url defined. Otherwise specify one.)
>
> Also on your form you probably want to define it to exclude store - and if 
> store is actually required you can probably leave off the blank=True.
>

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