[Fixed]-How to map HTML form data to Django model

It sounds as though your html form already exists and somehow you want to read in the POST data from that form. Without making any further assumptions as to how you ended up with an html form without a django ModelForm or forms.Form output via a view – as long as the form action location is mapped via a route to a view – the view can then process the request.POST data. Again all form validation goodness of django is out the door if you did not use django forms (model or forms based) and you have to do your own validations in the view then. Once the form data has been validated, initialize your model object like this: my_obj = ModelName(field_name1=form_input_data1, field_name2=form_input_data2, …) and that’s it. Then you can do my_obj.save().

Now let’s say, it’s not so bad. You actually are using the forms.Form inheritance to create your django-istic form class which has no direct relationship with the model. Now you can use the form related validation clean_field and clean steps etc… as well as all the built-in field types internal validation django automatically does. Then when you read in the POST data – do whatever it takes to map the form fields (via any transformation as necessary) to the django model object you are trying to construct, keeping in mind the default values and any model save custom assignments that may happen.

You can not just map a html form into your django model. You need to create a model form first and then render it in html.

If you want to somehow map your html form to model. First render your ModelForm in html. Create the exact copy of the html format of your django form and use it in html. Catch that in your view and process it like model form. But anyway you have to create the ModelForm.