django form not saving despite success message - django

Question

I have been trying to teach myself something new this week by following various tutorials on Google APIs. I am hitting a wall on the form saving bit, so helping you can help.
Basically, I am trying to offer user the possibility to enter their first line of address for Google to then submit suggestions of addresses.
This first bit works (when I enter the first line of an address, I get generated a list of suggestions).
However, when I am trying to save the form, this doesn't seem to be saved anywhere. And I am not getting any error message either (if anything I am getting the a "success message" I am supposed to receive when the form is successfully submit).
I thought there might be a field that is not getting being populated in the html. So I tried to empty one and tried to save. But on this occasion I received an error message, saying the field is missing. Which makes me thing this hasnt anything to do with the fields in the form but probably how I save my form in the views.py.
I must admit I am way out of my comfort zone here (this ajax thing proved to be difficult to make work, and all I had to do was to follow a tutorial..), so I wouldnt be surprised I am not capturing all the code needed for you to help. If so let me know what you need to see.
Views.py
def is_ajax(request):
return request.META.get('HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH') == 'XMLHttpRequest'
def profile(request):
result = "Error"
message = "There was an error, please try again"
form = profileform(instance = request.user)
Profile.objects.get_or_create(user=request.user)
if is_ajax(request=request):
form = profileform(data = request.POST, instance = request.user)
if form.is_valid():
obj = form.save()
obj.has_profile = True
obj.save()
result = "Success"
message = "Your profile has been updated"
else:
message = FormErrors(form)
data = {'result': result, 'message': message}
return JsonResponse(data)
else:
context = {'form': form}
context['google_api_key'] = settings.GOOGLE_API_KEY
context['base_country'] = settings.BASE_COUNTRY
return render(request, 'main/profile.html', context)
Froms.py
from .models import Profile
class ProfileForm(forms.ModelForm):
address = forms.CharField(max_length=100, required=True, widget = forms.HiddenInput())
town = forms.CharField(max_length=100, required=True, widget = forms.HiddenInput())
county = forms.CharField(max_length=100, required=True, widget = forms.HiddenInput())
post_code = forms.CharField(max_length=8, required=True, widget = forms.HiddenInput())
country = forms.CharField(max_length=40, required=True, widget = forms.HiddenInput())
longitude = forms.CharField(max_length=50, required=True, widget = forms.HiddenInput())
latitude = forms.CharField(max_length=50, required=True, widget = forms.HiddenInput())
class Meta:
model = Profile
fields = ['address','town','county','post_code','country','longitude','latitude']
Models.py
class Profile(models.Model):
user = models.OneToOneField(User, null=True, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
timestamp = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
updated = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)
address = models.CharField(verbose_name="Address",max_length=100, null=True, blank=True)
town = models.CharField(verbose_name="Town",max_length=100, null=True, blank=True)
county = models.CharField(verbose_name="County",max_length=100, null=True, blank=True)
post_code = models.CharField(verbose_name="Post Code",max_length=8, null=True, blank=True)
country = models.CharField(verbose_name="Country",max_length=100, null=True, blank=True)
longitude = models.CharField(verbose_name="Longitude",max_length=50, null=True, blank=True)
latitude = models.CharField(verbose_name="Latitude",max_length=50, null=True, blank=True)
captcha_score = models.FloatField(default = 0.0)
has_profile = models.BooleanField(default=False)
is_active = models.BooleanField(default=True)
def __str__(self):
return str(self.user)

Answer 1

Interesting that you're getting to your success message. Your issue might be that you're passing a user instance to a form that expects a profile model (not sure why this doesn't throw an error though):
# capture the profile that is created with get_or_create
profile, created = Profile.objects.get_or_create(user=request.user)
if is_ajax(request=request):
form = profileform(data = request.POST, instance=profile) # change instance

Answer 2

Instead of
else:
message = FormErrors(form)
Try this
else:
message = form.errors