from django import forms from django.contrib.auth.models import User from basic.messages.models import Message class MessageForm(forms.ModelForm): to_user = forms.CharField() class Meta: model = Message exclude = ('to_status', 'from_status', 'from_user', 'object_id', 'content_type') def clean_to_user(self): if self.cleaned_data['to_user']: try: user = User.objects.get(username=self.cleaned_data['to_user']) self.cleaned_data['to_user'] = user return self.cleaned_data['to_user'] except User.DoesNotExist: pass raise forms.ValidationError(u'There are no users with this username.')