New Contact - Create View

The second step on the journey to building a new contact form is to build the view. This is a pretty standard CRUD view. Upon receiving a request, the view will check to see if it's a POST request. If so it will extract the HTML form values and attempt to create a contact object.

If the request is not a POST, then the view will render a blank contact form.

Open the /.../crmeasy/crmapp/contacts/views.py file in your IDE. First, add the imports to the top of the file. Then, add the contact_cru() FBV to the end of the file. 

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from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
from django.http import HttpResponseForbidden

from .forms import ContactForm


@login_required()
def contact_cru(request):

    if request.POST:
        form = ContactForm(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            # make sure the user owns the account
            account = form.cleaned_data['account']
            if account.owner != request.user:
                return HttpResponseForbidden()
            # save the data
            contact = form.save(commit=False)
            contact.owner = request.user
            contact.save()
            # return the user to the account detail view
            reverse_url = reverse(
                'crmapp.accounts.views.account_detail',
                args=(account.uuid,)
            )
            return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse_url)
    else:
        form = ContactForm()

    variables = {
        'form': form,
    }

    template = 'contacts/contact_cru.html'

    return render(request, template, variables)

Code Review

Line 15: The new account form will contain a hidden input element. This field's value will be set to the account ID that the contact should be related to.

Commit Changes

Execute these commands to commit your changes in Git.

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# add files
(venv)$ git add .

# commit files
(venv)$ git commit -m "created new account view"

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