Django Forms with get_or_create

Question

I am using Django ModelForms to create a form. I have my form set up and it is working ok.

form = MyForm(data=request.POST)

if form.is_valid():
    form.sav         


        

Answer 1

I like this approach:

if request.method == 'POST':
    form = MyForm(request.POST)
    if form.is_valid():
       book, created = Book.objects.get_or_create(**form.cleaned_data)

That way you get to take advantage of all the functionality of model forms (except .save()) and the get_or_create shortcut.