Django not auto populating current user foreign key-CodePudding

I'm inserting entries into my database from the front end but the current logged in user foreign key is not populating. It get's entered as null.

here is my model:

from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import User

# Create your models here.

class WordsAndPhrases (models.Model):
    word_or_phrase = models.CharField(max_length=20000)
    created_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
    updated_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)
    added_by = models.ForeignKey(User, null=True, on_delete=models.DO_NOTHING)
 
    def __str__(self):
        return self.word_or_phrase

here is my views.py code snippet.

def upload(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        wordOrPhrase = request.POST['word-or-phrase']
        currentUser = request.user
        print(currentUser)
        newEntry = WordsAndPhrases(word_or_phrase = wordOrPhrase)
        addedBy = WordsAndPhrases(added_by = currentUser)
        newEntry.save()

    return render(request, 'display_words_phrases_app/upload.html')

Thanks in advance.

CodePudding user response：

You need to define an id key in your model

id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True, )

CodePudding user response：

You are creating two entry objects. When you create a new object, you should insert both word_or_phrase and added_by like this:

def upload(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
    wordOrPhrase = request.POST['word-or-phrase']
    currentUser = request.user
    print(currentUser)
    newEntry = WordsAndPhrases(word_or_phrase = wordOrPhrase, added_by = currentUser)
    newEntry.save()

return render(request, 'display_words_phrases_app/upload.html')

Your addedBy object was useless.