How to add data into ManyToMany field?

Question

I can't find it anywhere, so your help will be nice for me :) Here is that field:

categories = models.ManyToManyField(fragmentCategory) 

FragmentCategory:

class fragmentCategory(models.Model):          CATEGORY_CHOICES = (                         ('val1', 'value1'),                         ('val2', 'value2'),                         ('val3', 'value3'),                         )          name = models.CharField(max_length=20, choices=CATEGORY_CHOICES) 

Here is the form to send:

<input type="checkbox" name="val1" /> <input type="checkbox" name="val2" /> <input type="checkbox" name="val3" /> 

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I tried something like this:

categories = fragmentCategory.objects.get(id=1), 

Or:

categories = [1,2] 

Answer 1

There's a whole page of the Django documentation devoted to this, well indexed from the contents page.

As that page states, you need to do:

my_obj.categories.add(fragmentCategory.objects.get(id=1)) 

or

my_obj.categories.create(name='val1')