From dce557b9e7ad41dce171167b3679c5c67fdbcde3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Russell Keith-Magee Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:57:11 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Fixed #6891 -- Clarified modelform usage documentation. Thanks to Eric Holscher for the suggestion. git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@7728 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37 --- docs/modelforms.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/modelforms.txt b/docs/modelforms.txt index a76d797527..73335a03a2 100644 --- a/docs/modelforms.txt +++ b/docs/modelforms.txt @@ -182,6 +182,13 @@ supplied, ``save()`` will update that instance. If it's not supplied, # Create a form to edit an existing Article. >>> a = Article.objects.get(pk=1) >>> f = ArticleForm(instance=a) + >>> f.save() + + # Create a form to edit an existing Article, but use + # POST data to populate the form. + >>> a = Article.objects.get(pk=1) + >>> f = ArticleForm(request.POST, instance=a) + >>> f.save() Note that ``save()`` will raise a ``ValueError`` if the data in the form doesn't validate -- i.e., ``if form.errors``.