Django, UserChangeForm errors

Question

I'm making a custom user form where a user can go in to change some details. It got two errors that I cannot understand what the problem is though.

The first problem is that the form doesn't fill out the user details. And it seems to be because self is empty when form is initialized, why?

And the second problem is that when I submit this form, it will complain about some KeyError, which I don't get either. I've pasted the code and stacktrace.

Trackback

Environment:


Request Method: POST
Request URL: http://localhost:8000/settings/

Django Version: 1.4
Python Version: 2.7.2
Installed Applications:
('django.contrib.auth',
 'django.contrib.contenttypes',
 'django.contrib.sessions',
 'django.contrib.sites',
 'django.contrib.messages',
 'django.contrib.staticfiles',
 'django.contrib.admin',
 'social_auth')
Installed Middleware:
('django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
 'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
 'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
 'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware')


Traceback:
File "c:\tools\python27\lib\site-packages\django-1.4-py2.7.egg\django\core\handlers\base.py" in get_response
  111.                         response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
File "c:\tools\python27\lib\site-packages\django-1.4-py2.7.egg\django\contrib\auth\decorators.py" in _wrapped_view
  20.                 return view_func(request, *args, **kwargs)
File "C:\xampp\htdocs\tddd27_project\contact\views.py" in settings
  47.       if form.is_valid():
File "c:\tools\python27\lib\site-packages\django-1.4-py2.7.egg\django\forms\forms.py" in is_valid
  124.         return self.is_bound and not bool(self.errors)
File "c:\tools\python27\lib\site-packages\django-1.4-py2.7.egg\django\forms\forms.py" in _get_errors
  115.             self.full_clean()
File "c:\tools\python27\lib\site-packages\django-1.4-py2.7.egg\django\forms\forms.py" in full_clean
  270.         self._clean_fields()
File "c:\tools\python27\lib\site-packages\django-1.4-py2.7.egg\django\forms\forms.py" in _clean_fields
  290.                     value = getattr(self, 'clean_%s' % name)()
File "c:\tools\python27\lib\site-packages\django-1.4-py2.7.egg\django\contrib\auth\forms.py" in clean_password
  122.         return self.initial["password"]

Exception Type: KeyError at /settings/
Exception Value: 'password'

views.py

def settings(request):

    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = UserProfileForm(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            form.save()
            return HttpResponse("Change success")
    else:
        form = UserProfileForm(instance=request.user)
    return render_to_response('settings.html',{'form': form}, context_instance=RequestContext(request))

forms.py

class UserProfileForm(UserChangeForm):

    class Meta:
        model = User
        fields = ('username', 'first_name', 'last_name')
        exclude = ('password',)

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(UserProfileForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        if self.instance  and self.instance.pk:
            self.fields['username'] = self.instance.username
            self.fields['first_name'] = self.instance.first_name
            self.fields['last_name'] = self.instance.last_name

template

{% extends "base.html" %}

{% block title %}
    Settings
{% endblock title %}

{% block content %}
 {{ user.username }}
    <form action="" method="POST">
        {% csrf_token %}
        {{ form.as_p }}
        <input type="submit" value="submit">
    </form>
{% endblock content %}

Answer 1

Regarding your second problem, I also came across the same issue today, while updating from Django 1.3 to Django 1.4. I had a custom form just like you:

class UserProfileForm(UserChangeForm):
    class Meta:
        model = User
        fields = ('username', 'first_name', 'last_name', )

I solved the problem by adding a clean_password method like this:

class UserProfileForm(UserChangeForm):
    class Meta:
        model = User
        fields = ('username', 'first_name', 'last_name', )

    def clean_password(self):
        return "" # This is a temporary fix for a django 1.4 bug