[Answered ]-Django ModelForm's field returns id instead of value

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First, remove you’re going to need to remove fields from your ModelForm definition. As it is no the data you want.

class AddLink(ModelForm):
  subtitle = forms.CharField(label='Subreddit')
  class Meta:
      model = Post

Then, you need to populate your initial form data.

@login_required(login_url='/login/')
def edit_link(request, post_id):
    get_post = Post.objects.get(id=post_id)
    if request.method == 'POST':
         form = AddLink(request.POST, instance=get_post)
         if form.is_valid():
             form.save()
             return HttpResponseRedirect('/')
     else:
         # this line changed
         form = AddLink(instance=get_post, initial={ 'subtitle': get_post.subtitle.name })     
     context = { 'form': form, 'post': get_post, }
     template_name = 'edit_post.html'
     return render_to_response(template_name, context,
             context_instance=RequestContext(request))

Also, you should probably add a save() method to your model.

def save(self, commit=True):
    post = super(AddLink, self).save(commit=False)
    subtitle_name = self.cleaned_data['subtitle']
    if post.subtitle:
        post.subtitle.name = subtitle_name
    else:
        post.subtitle = new Subtitle(name=subtitle_name)
    post.subtitle.save()
    post.save()
    return post

EDIT: made a change in code base on comment.

👤drewman

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