how to get field value in django admin form save_model

Question

I have the following model:

class Guest(models.Model):
    first_name = models.CharField(max_length=128)
    last_name = models.CharField(max_length=128)
    category = models.ForeignKey(Category)
    player_achievement = models.ForeignKey(PlayerAchievement, related_name="guest_achievements")
    player = models.ForeignKey(Player)

I want to get the player selected in the form to use in my save_model method:

def save_model(self, request, obj, form, change):
        player = ??? how do i get this from the admin form?


        obj.player = player
        obj.save()

egeogretmen · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-09 22:13:32Z

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It depends on how you declared your form. If you inherited the ModelForm, then you should in most cases use ModelChoiceField to select the associated Player with your Guest object and this is through calling form.cleaned_data.get('player')

answered Sep 9, 2016 at 22:13

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4 Comments

Atma Over a year ago

This is an admin form. I didn't create it.

egeogretmen Over a year ago

Ok, I guess either form.cleaned_data.get('player') or form.cleaned_data['player'] should still work

josue Over a year ago

How can I keep it in a field. ?

Yash verma Over a year ago

@egeogretmen thanks man that saved me a lot of trouble.

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