Django Error (Attribute): 'CharField' object has no attribute 'is_related'

Question

I am trying to make a description to every user, in my new project. But i get an error when i try to makemigrations. I do not know how to fix it. I have tried different things but nothing worked, my coding is maybe very bad, but i am also new to python and django.

The Error:

C:\Users\bruger\Dropbox\min-login-web\web_login>python manage.py makemigrations
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "manage.py", line 15, in <module>
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
  File "C:\Users\bruger\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py", line 381, in execute_from_command_line
    utility.execute()
  File "C:\Users\bruger\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py", line 375, in execute
    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File "C:\Users\bruger\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\base.py", line 316, in run_from_argv
    self.execute(*args, **cmd_options)
  File "C:\Users\bruger\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\base.py", line 353, in execute
    output = self.handle(*args, **options)
  File "C:\Users\bruger\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\base.py", line 83, in wrapped
    res = handle_func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\bruger\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\commands\makemigrations.py", line 143, in handle
    loader.project_state(),
  File "C:\Users\bruger\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\django\db\migrations\loader.py", line 322, in project_state
    return self.graph.make_state(nodes=nodes, at_end=at_end, real_apps=list(self.unmigrated_apps))
  File "C:\Users\bruger\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\django\db\migrations\graph.py", line 378, in make_state
    project_state = self.nodes[node].mutate_state(project_state, preserve=False)
  File "C:\Users\bruger\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\django\db\migrations\migration.py", line 87, in mutate_state
    operation.state_forwards(self.app_label, new_state)
  File "C:\Users\bruger\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\django\db\migrations\operations\models.py", line 85, in state_forwards
    list(self.managers),
  File "C:\Users\bruger\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\django\db\migrations\state.py", line 377, in __init__
    if field.is_relation and hasattr(field.related_model, '_meta'):
AttributeError: 'CharField' object has no attribute 'is_relation'

My Models file:

from django import forms
from django.db import models
from django.db.models.signals import post_save
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from PIL import Image


class Profile(models.Model):
    user = models.OneToOneField(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    image = models.ImageField(default='default.jpg', upload_to='profile_pics')

    def __str__(self):
        return f'{self.user.username} Profile'

    def save(self):
        super().save()

        img = Image.open(self.image.path)

        if img.height > 300 or img.width > 300:
            output_size = (300, 300)
            img.thumbnail(output_size)
            img.save(self.image.path)

class Desc(models.Model):
    description = forms.CharField(widget = forms.Textarea, max_length = 250, required=False)

    def __str__(self):
        return f'{self.user.username} Desc'

I Hope somebody can help me, because this is really getting on my nerves.

Answer 1

You mixed forms and models. A model does not specify a (HTML) form, it specifies how the database should store data, so you need to use a models.CharField:

class Desc(models.Model):
    description = models.CharField(max_length=250)

Such CharField has no widget assigned to it, this is something you should handle at the form level.

You probably will need to make migrations, since up to this point, there was no description field in your Desc model.

I agree to some extent that it is confusing that the forms have frequently a field with the same name (well those typically are the default form fields for the model field with the same name). The idea is however that model fields specify the columns in a database, whereas form fields specify text boxes, check boxes, etc. in a (HTML) form.