>From the docs for AuthenticationForm: "Takes request as its first positional argument, which is stored on the form instance for use by sub-classes."
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/default/#django.contrib.auth.forms.AuthenticationForm On Thursday, February 14, 2019 at 7:47:23 AM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi, > > I have just been following the Django documention on forms: > > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/topics/forms/ > > And I was having an issue with validating the posted data in the view > code. > > I came across this Stack Overflow post : > > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45824046/djangos-authentication-form-is-always-not-valid > > Where the solution to my problem was to use the data Keyword argument when > creating a form from the POST'd data. Looking back on the docs I noticed > that this wasn't specified. > > So my view function now looks like this: > > def login(request): > if request.method == 'POST': > form = LoginForm(data=request.POST) #<- This is where I had to use > the data kwarg > if form.is_valid(): > return HttpResponseRedirect('#') > return render(request, 'scoreboard/login.html', {'form': form}) > else: > return render(request, 'scoreboard/login.html', {'form': LoginForm()}) > > > > > [image: data kwarg.png] > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/b02ec303-62b9-40ea-b048-f181aeb62a9c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
