Following along the Django polls app tutorial, I was wondering if instead of having a Charfield for the choice Model and manually adding every response/choice to the database; Is it possible to have choices?
For example:
class Poll(models.Model):
text = models.CharField(max_length=255)
pub_date = models.DateField()
def __str__(self):
return self.text
class Choice(models.Model):
question = models.ForeignKey(Poll, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
choice_text = models.CharField(max_length=255)
votes = models.IntegerField(default=0)
def __str__(self):
return "{} - {}".format(self.question.text[:25],
self.choice_text[:25])
You have standard choices for every Poll like this:
class Poll(models.Model):
text = models.CharField(max_length=255)
pub_date = models.DateField()
def __str__(self):
return self.text
class Choice(models.Model):
VOTING_CHOICES = (
('Aye', 'Aye'),
('Nay', 'Nay'),
('Abstain', 'Abstain'),
)
question = models.ForeignKey(Poll, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
choice_text = models.CharField(
max_length=7,
choices=VOTING_CHOICES,
default='Aye',
)**
votes = models.IntegerField(default=0)
def __str__(self):
return "{} - {}".format(self.question.text[:25],
self.choice_text[:25])
Poll Detail page
========
{{ poll }}
<form action="" method="post">
{% csrf_token %}
{% for choice in poll.choice_set.all %}
{% for i,k in choice.VOTING_CHOICES %}
<input type="radio"
name="option"
id="choice{{forloop.counter}}"
value="{{ i }}"/>
<label for="choice{{forloop.counter}}">{{ k }}</label>
{% endfor %}
{% endfor %}
<input type="submit" value="Vote">
</form>
views.py
def poll_detail(request, poll_id):
#render poll detail page
poll= get_object_or_404(Poll, id=poll_id)
if request.method =="POST":
print(request.POST)
# Debug to see what data I am posting on form submission
context = {
'poll':poll,
}
return render(request, 'app/poll_detail.html', context)
Does that make sense? Every time I try to implement this, I either get an empty dictionary response when I POST from the form or the options show up in tuples(or do not render at all).
