On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:30 PM, phoebebright <phoebebright...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > I thought I had a custom widget which would allow images to be deleted > working and was dead chuffed (http://groups.google.com/group/django- > users/browse_thread/thread/ebf646208fa8880f/c22f87e85b5d78ef? > lnk=gst&q=admin+image#c22f87e85b5d78ef<http://groups.google.com/group/django-%0Ausers/browse_thread/thread/ebf646208fa8880f/c22f87e85b5d78ef?%0Alnk=gst&q=admin+image#c22f87e85b5d78ef>) > but unfortunately it doesn't > work. I have spent the whole evening trying to work out what exactly > is going on and have to admit defeat. > > The widget adds a delete checkbox next to each image as well as > displaying it, then in the save_model() method it checks to see if > this checkbox was set and clears the field if it is. > > def save_model(self, request, obj, form, change): > > #handle delete checkbox for pics > if request.POST.get('delete_pic1','off')=='on': > obj.pic1='' > > > This is what happens: > 1. create a new record and add an image - OK > 2. edit the record - image is displayed - make no changes and click > save - OK > 3. edit the record again and the image is gone - NOT OK! > > This is my thinking so far: > I wondered if I needed to set the value when assigning the widget to > the field, but as the image is displayed in step 2, I recon not. > I tried also saving the value of pic in a hidden field and modifying > save_model > > if request.POST.get('delete_pic2','off')=='on': > obj.pic2='' > else: > obj.pic2=request.POST.get('old_pic2','') > > But it never even gets uploaded in step 1. So I tried: > > try: > p=request.FILES.get('pic1') > except: > if request.POST.get('delete_pic1','off')=='on': > obj.pic1='' > > And this goes back to the behaviour in the original step. > > I have tried putting in various breaks in the django code in files.py > to try and understand what is happening but my lack of debugging > skills are not helping! The client is expecting to see this tomorrow > so despite having plagued this list today with my problems, I hope to > prevail upon you to help me one more time... > > > > > > > If you are on trunk it looks like you are experiencing http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/10121 . Alex -- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." --Voltaire "The people's good is the highest law."--Cicero --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
