int() argument must be a string or a number, not 'SimpleLazyObject'

Question

I got, following Error messages,

TypeError at /save/ int() argument must be a string or a number, not \'SimpleLazyObject\'

Whi

Answer 1

Most likely the user who is loading the page is not authenticated. Therefor the error is thrown. If you want to save a request.user reference to the database, you obviously have to ensure that only authenticated users are able to call the function.

In your case there are two possibilities - add the "@login_required" decorator to the function or check if the user is authenticated inside the code. Here are the snippets:

With Decorator:

from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required

@login_required
def bookmark_save_page(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = BookmarkSaveForm(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            # Do something

OR - checking inside the code if the user is authenticated:

def bookmark_save_page(request):
    if request.method == 'POST' and request.user.is_authenticated():
        form = BookmarkSaveForm(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            # Do something