I have been following the DAL tutorial and can access a json object at
http://127.0.0.1:8000/entry/river-autocomplete/?q=S
So i know my view is working. Beyond that I cannot seem to get anything but the standard widget for ForignKey. From looking at the following posts in stackoverflow I feel that some static files or javascript libraries are not loading properly but for the life of me I cannot figure out how to fix this.
django-autocomplete-light template not rendering autocomplete widget
django-autocomplete-light displays empty dropdown in the form
Below are all of the files that I think pertain to this issue. If I can clarify things any further please let me know.
views.py (edit added full views.py)
class CreateEntry(LoginRequiredMixin, generic.CreateView):
fields = ('date', 'river', 'flow', 'description', 'public')
model = JournalEntry
def form_valid(self, form):
self.object = form.save(commit=False)
self.object.user = self.request.user
self.object.save()
return super().form_valid(form)
def get_success_url(self):
return reverse_lazy('home')
#autocomplete view
class RiverAutocomplete(autocomplete.Select2QuerySetView):
def get_queryset(self):
#User filtering code goes here
if not self.request.user.is_authenticated:
return River.objects.none()
qs = River.objects.all()
if self.q:
qs = qs.filter(river_name__istartswith=self.q)
return qs
settings.py
INSTALLED_APPS = [
'dal',
'dal_select2',
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
'journal',
'accounts',
'bootstrap5',
'django.contrib.admin',
]
models.py
class River(models.Model):
river_name = models.CharField(max_length=50)
aw_id = models.CharField(max_length=20)
state = models.CharField(max_length=5)
def __str__(self):
return "{river}".format(river=self.river_name)
class JournalEntry(models.Model):
user = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
date = models.DateField()
river = models.ForeignKey("River", on_delete=models.CASCADE)
flow = models.FloatField()
description = models.TextField(max_length=250)
public = models.BooleanField(default=False)
# picture = models.ImageField()
def __str__(self):
return "{river}--{date}".format(river=self.river, date=self.date)
forms.py
from django import forms
from . import models
from .widgets import FengyuanChenDatePickerInput
from dal import autocomplete
class JournalForm(forms.ModelForm):
date = forms.DateField(input_formats=['%m/%d/%Y'], widget=FengyuanChenDatePickerInput())
river = forms.ModelChoiceField(
queryset=models.River.objects.all(),
widget=autocomplete.ModelSelect2(url='journal:river-autocomplete'))
class Meta:
model = models.JournalEntry
fields = ("__all__")
urls.py
from django.urls import path
from django.conf.urls import url
from . import views
app_name='journal'
urlpatterns = [
...
...
#autocomplete view
url(r'^river-autocomplete/$', views.RiverAutocomplete.as_view(model=River, create_field='name'), name='river-autocomplete'),
]
html
{% extends "base.html" %}
{% load static %}
{% block content %}
<div class="container">
<h1>New Entry:</h1>
<form method="post">
{% csrf_token %}
<h3>Date:</h3>
{{ form.date}}
<h3>River:</h3>
{{ form.river }}
<h3>Flow:</h3>
{{ form.flow }}
<h3>Description:</h3>
{{ form.description }}
<h4>Public: {{ form.public }}</h4>
<input type="submit" value="Save">
</form>
</div>
{% endblock %}
{% block footer %}
<!-- DAL -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="{% static 'admin/js/vendor/jquery/jquery.js' %}"></script>
{{ form.media }}
<script>
(function($) {
$('#id_river').click(function() {
var index = $('#id_inline_test_models-TOTAL_FORMS').val()
var newTable = $('#id_inline_test_models-__prefix__-DELETE').parents('table').clone()
newTable.find(':input').each(function() {
for (attr of ['name', 'id'])
$(this).attr(
attr,
$(this).attr(attr).replace('__prefix__', index)
)
})
newTable.insertBefore($(this))
$('#id_inline_test_models-TOTAL_FORMS').val(
parseInt($('#id_inline_test_models-TOTAL_FORMS').val()) + 1
)
newTable.slideDown()
})
})($)
</script>
<!-- Datepicker -->
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/datepicker/0.6.5/datepicker.min.js" integrity="sha256-/7FLTdzP6CfC1VBAj/rsp3Rinuuu9leMRGd354hvk0k=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<script>
$(function () {
$("#id_date").datepicker({
format:'dd/mm/yyyy',
});
});
</script>
{% endblock %}
base.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" dir="ltr">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no">
<title>American Whitewater Journal</title>
<!-- Latest compiled and minified CSS -->
<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" integrity="sha384-EVSTQN3/azprG1Anm3QDgpJLIm9Nao0Yz1ztcQTwFspd3yD65VohhpuuCOmLASjC" crossorigin="anonymous">
<!-- jQuery -->
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.min.js" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<!-- Fengyuan Chen's Datepicker -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/datepicker/0.6.5/datepicker.min.css" integrity="sha256-b88RdwbRJEzRx95nCuuva+hO5ExvXXnpX+78h8DjyOE=" crossorigin="anonymous" />
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/datepicker/0.6.5/datepicker.min.js" integrity="sha256-/7FLTdzP6CfC1VBAj/rsp3Rinuuu9leMRGd354hvk0k=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
</head>
<body>
<nav class="navbar navbar-expand-lg navbar-light mynav" style="background-color: #238c91" role="navigation" id="navbar">
...
...
...
</nav>
<div class="container">
{% block content %}
{% endblock %}
{% block footer %}
{% endblock %}
</div>
</body>
</html>
I have tried to use the exact {% block content %} that is in the tutorial without a differing result. Any help would be much appreciated.
Second question: I am pretty new to posting on stackoverflow and wonder if anybody has a good rule of thumb about how many hours one should spend researching and trying on your own before you post a question?
You are not passing your form class to the view, just passing fields means that the form you are using is just an auto-generated ModelForm without your custom widget
class CreateEntry(LoginRequiredMixin, generic.CreateView):
model = JournalEntry
form_class = JournalForm
...