javascript - Comments are not saving from frontend in django

Question

Hi everyone the comments are not working with CBV my form not even saving the comment. here is my code i will love if anyone help me with this.my models.py is

    class Product(models.Model):
        title = models.CharField(max_length=110)
        slug = models.SlugField(blank=True, unique=True)
        price = models.DecimalField(decimal_places=2, max_digits=6)
        discount_price=models.FloatField(blank=True, null=True)
        size = models.CharField(choices=SIZE_CHOICES, max_length=20)
        color = models.CharField(max_length=20, blank=True, null=True)
        image = models.ImageField(upload_to=upload_image_path)
        description = models.CharField(max_length=1000)
        featured = models.BooleanField(default=False)
        author = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
        time_stamp = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)

        objects=ProductManager()

        def get_absolute_url(self):#i use this in product_list.html to go to detail page
            #return "/product/{slug}".format(slug=self.slug)
            return reverse("products:detail", kwargs={"slug" : self.slug})


        def __str__(self):
            return str(self.title)

        @property
        def name(self):         #sometime in html i say name istead of title so to make it work i wrote this
            return self.title

    def product_pre_save_reciever(sender, instance, *args, **kwargs):#i inherit unique slug generator from utils to here so when i create aa new instance it slug automatically generate. and i i create two t shirts it give a random straing to tshirt 2nd slug
        if not instance.slug:
            instance.slug=unique_slug_generator(instance)

    pre_save.connect(product_pre_save_reciever, sender=Product)


    class Comment(models.Model):
        product=models.ForeignKey(Product , related_name="comments", on_delete=models.CASCADE)
        name = models.CharField(max_length=255)
        body=models.TextField()
        date_added = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)

        def __str__(self):
            return '%s - %s'%(self.product.title, self.name)

my forms.py is:

    from django import forms
    from .models import Comment

    class CommentForm(forms.ModelForm):
        class Meta:
            model = Comment
            fields = ['name', 'body']

            widgets ={
                'name':forms.TextInput(attrs={'class':'form-control'}),
                'body':forms.Textarea(attrs={'class':'form-control'}),
            }

the views.py is:

    class CommentCreateView(CreateView):
        model = Comment
        form_class = CommentForm
        template_name = 'add-comment.html'
        # fields = '__all__'


        def form_valid(self, form):
            form.instance.product_id = self.kwargs['pk']
            return super().form_valid(form)
        success_url = reverse_lazy('list')

my add-comment.html is:

{% extends "base.html"%}
{% load crispy_forms_tags%}
{% block content %}
  <h2 class="text-center">comment here...</h2>
<div class="col-md-6 offset-md-3">
 <form method="POST">

   {% csrf_token %}
     <fieldset class="form-group">
    {{form|crispy}}
     </fieldset>
<!--     <div class="form-group"><button class="btn btn-outline-info" type="submit">Pubmit</button>-->
<!--     </div>-->
<!--     <input type="submit" value="Submit" class="btn btn-secondary">-->
     <button class="btn btn-secondary">Add comment</button>
 </form>

</div>
{% endblock %}

Answer 1

The problem comes from the fact you don't provide any pk keyword argument to your view.

From the urls.py, I can see you have a slug kwargs though. You can then identify the matching product with its slug.

In your views.py, replace:

form.instance.product_id = self.kwargs['pk']

by

form.instance.product = Product.objects.get(slug=self.kwargs['slug'])

Explanation:

Here you want to associate your comment with the matching product. So, for that, you use NameOfModel.objects.get(query), which returns one single instance of your model (here Product), matching the query. In your case the only way to retrieve the object is getting the keyword argument slug from your url and search it on your Product slug field, so here the query is slug=self.kwargs['slug'].