Can't get data from form in django template into view? - django

Question

Currently both of these print statements either log 'None' or just do not show at all. Even if I just print("hello') in the form.is_valid conditional I do not see it. Not sure what I have done wrong but the data was saving into the django admin but now it is not...
def create_user_account(request, *args, **kwargs):
form = UserAccountForm(request.POST or None)
print(request.POST.get('account_email'))
if form.is_valid():
print(form['account_email'].value())
form.save()
form = UserAccountForm()
context = {
'form': form
}
return render(request, 'registration/register_user.html', context)
and the html:
{% block content %}
<form action="{% url 'home' %}" method='POST'> {% csrf_token %}
{{form.as_p}}
<input type='submit' value='Submit'/>
</form>
{% endblock %}}
edit: i do get "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 when I send the request which is weird. I don't see a 201 or 302 like I would expect.
forms.py:
class UserAccountForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = UserAccount
fields = [
'first_name',
'last_name',
'account_email',
'country'
]
class UserAccount(models.Model):
first_name = models.CharField(max_length=30, null=False)
last_name = models.CharField(max_length=30, null=False)
account_email = models.EmailField(max_length = 254, null=False)
country = models.CharField(choices=COUNTRY_CHOICES, null=False,
max_length=75)
activated = models.BooleanField(default=False)
CONTINUED:
So I dropped the database, migrated and the table appeared like normal. I tried to save data and the same problem? BUT I also tried to add information manually through the admin site and got this error:
OperationalError at /admin/profiles/useraccount/add/
no such table: main.auth_user__old
So I updated to Django 3.0.6 and this solved the problem - can now add manually but still cannot add through the form.

Answer 1

This was the solution. I don't know why it stopped working but it did. I feel I got finessed by indentation.
def register(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
form = UserAccountForm(request.POST)
if form.is_valid():
form.save()
return redirect('/')
else:
form = UserAccountForm()
context = {
'form': form
}
return render(request, 'registration/register_user.html', context)