ModelForm in Django not saving anything - django

Question

I am making a twitter clone app in Django. I have a model, and a modelform as so:
Class Tweet(models.Model):
content = models.TextField(blank=True, null=True)
image = models.FileField(upload_to='images/', blank=True, null=True)
class TweetForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Tweet
fields = ['content',]
def clean_content(self):
content = self.cleaned_data.get('content')
if len(content) > MAX_TWEET_LENGTH:
raise forms.ValidationError('This tweet is too long')
I have a view for this:
def tweet_create_view(request, *args, **kwargs):
if request.method == 'POST':
form = TweetForm(request.POST or None)
if form.is_valid():
instance = form.save(commit=False)
instance.save()
form = TweetForm()
context = {
'form': form
}
return render(request, 'components/form.html', context)
and the template:
<form method="POST">
{% csrf_token %}
{{ form.as_p }}
<button class="btn btn-secondary" type="submit">Save</button>
</form>
When I submit the form data, in the database the value is shown as NULL, even if I pass in some text. What am I doing wrong??

Answer 1

You are not returning the cleaned form data from the clean function, as your clean function doesn't return anything if it passes the validation, it saves None/Null to DB.
def clean_content(self):
content = self.cleaned_data.get('content')
if len(content) > MAX_TWEET_LENGTH:
raise forms.ValidationError('This tweet is too long')
return content