Python/Django - radiobutton with submit button instead of buttons-CodePudding

I have a Django application where I want to have a setting: if the email is sent automatically or manually. What I have works, but not in the style that I want it.

At the moment I have 2 buttons where you can click them and the setting is set to what you want. But what I would want is radio buttons, that are also already checked or unchecked, depending on the setting.

What I have now is:

model.py

class AutoSendMail(models.Model):
    auto = models.BooleanField(default=False)
    manual = models.BooleanField(default=True)
    send_type = (
        ('manual', 'MANUAL'),
        ('auto', 'AUTO')
    )
    type = models.CharField(max_length=6, choices=send_type, default="manual")

forms.py

CHOICES = [('manual', 'MANUAL'),
        ('auto', 'AUTO')]

class SendMailSetting(ModelForm):
    class Meta:

        model = AutoSendMail
        fields = ['auto', 'manual', 'type']
        widgets = {
            "manual": forms.RadioSelect(attrs={'class': 'form-control'}),
            "auto": forms.RadioSelect(attrs={'class': 'form-control'}),
            'type': forms.ChoiceField(choices=CHOICES, widget=forms.RadioSelect)
        }

views.py

class AutoSendView(generic.TemplateView):
    template_name = 'core/mailbox/autoSendMail.html'
    context_object_name = 'autosend'
    extra_context = {"mailbox_page": "active"}
    form_class = SendMailSetting

    def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        if request.POST.get('manual'):
            logger.info("Set to: manual email send")
            AutoSendMail.objects.filter(pk=1).update(auto=True,
                                                     manual=False,
                                                     type="manual")
        elif request.POST.get('auto'):
            logger.info("Set to auto email send")
            AutoSendMail.objects.filter(pk=1).update(auto=True,
                                                     manual=False,
                                                     type="auto")

        return HttpResponseRedirect(self.request.path_info)

autoSendMail.html

<form  action="" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    {% csrf_token %}
    <div >
        <h3 >Update Mail Settings</h3>
        <div >
            <div >
                <div >
                    <label >Send E-mail</label>
                    <button type="radio" name="manual" value="manual" >Manual</button>
                    <button type="radio" name="auto" value="auto" >Automated</button>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</form>

Currently it looks like this:

And I would like it to look more like this:

At the moment I'm only using a POST request, and I guess, to inform the user I also need to use a GET request, but I can't get it to work. Also I'm now not using the form, I tried to use it in different ways but I can't get the result I want..

Can someone help me?

CodePudding user response：

You had created a modelForm but you are not using it here. Anyway for basic method you can try below method

<input type="radio" name="update_type" value="manual">Manual</input>
<input type="radio" name="update_type" value="auto">Automated</input>
<button type="submit" >Submit</button>

views.py

def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
   update_type = request.POST.get('update_type'):
   if update_type == 'manual':
       "update db with manual to true"
   else:
       "update the db with auto to true"