Brilliant! Thanks. Just to make it clear for anyone else reading, doing self.instance.pk gives me what I want.
I am not really an expert at any level, have no formal training, and am just poking around the "dark alley of code" to find my way, so am just hoping what I am doing is right ;) Regards, CM On Dec 9, 2:50 pm, bruno desthuilliers <bruno.desthuilli...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 9 déc, 06:29, chefsmart <moran.cors...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > At what point in a modelform's lifecycle does the underlying object > > become accessible? > > Specifically, can I access the underlying object in > > a modelform's "clean" method? > > Or is it only after one does form.save > > () with or without commit = False? > > Use the source, Luke !-) > > Reading the code for the BaseModelForm class, it appears that if no > instance is provided (you can obviously access the instance from any > method if you passed one...), one is created in the __init__ method. > So you do have access to the instance anywhere after to call to > ModelForm.__init__. > > *BUT* > > > I basically need to do some custom validation and need to access the > > object's pk attribute in "clean". Can this be done? > > The pk will only be set if the instance has already been saved at > least once (stating the obvious, yes). So if you didn't pass an > instance, the one you'll get will have None as pk value. > > HTH -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@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.
