CS50Web python. I can't get a new entry to save and show on the homepage of my wiki project. I am using Django with python

Question

I can't get my code to save a new entry and return an error message if entry already existed. its just the views.py I can't figure out help please. code below

Answer 1

There might be more than one way of doing this, but I imported default_storage and ContentFile and it worked for me.

from django.core.files.storage import default_storage

from django.core.files.base import ContentFile

And then in my add function

file = ContentFile(content)

default_storage.save( f"entries/{title}.md", file)

return HttpResponseRedirect(title)

It looks like you've got some cut'n'paste code hanging around from the Tasks app. tasks.append(title) will add title to a list of tasks. I think the objective though is to save the content to a title.md markdown file in the entries folder of the project.

Finally, you need to check if the title already exists and only perform the save if it doesn't. Something like: if (title in util.list_entries()) should be a good start.