Django : ValueError at / The 'avatar' attribute has no file associated with it

Question

Django sends me the following error: ValueError at / The 'avatar' attribute has no file associated with it.

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The message appears just after I log in, even though I uploaded an avatar when I registered a dummy profile.

I can't even find the avatar in the configured path: media/avatars.

Could you help find where I got this wrong please? Bellow is my code.

**models.py: **

from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractUser

class User(AbstractUser):
    (some code)
    avatar = models.ImageField(upload_to='avatars/',blank=True, null=True)

**forms.py: **

class RegisterForm(UserCreationForm):

    (some code)

    avatar = forms.ImageField(
        required=False,
        widget=forms.ClearableFileInput(
            attrs={
                "class": "form-control"
            }
        )
    )

    class Meta:
        model = User
        fields = ['username','first_name','last_name','email','avatar','password1','password2','user_type']
    

**settings.py: **

STATIC_URL = '/static/'
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
MEDIA_DIR = BASE_DIR / 'media'
STATIC_ROOT = BASE_DIR / 'staticfiles'
MEDIA_ROOT = BASE_DIR / 'media'

I added this in urls.py of the main project directory:

if settings.DEBUG:
    urlpatterns += static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)

And finally, the path of where I want the avatars to be uploaded:

mainProject ├── media │ ├── avatars

Thank you very much for any help

I tried to make all the uploaded avatars go to media/avatars.

I even made conditions where there is a placeholder image in case the user doesn't upload any avatar:

          {% if user.avatar %}
            <img src="{{ user.avatar.url }}">
          {% else %}
            <img src="{% static 'images/cat.png' %}">
          {% endif %}

There is indeed a 'cat.png' image in static/images/

Answer 1

hope you haven't forgotton to apply makemigration and migrate! do you have github repo of it, i want to have a through look at before commenting.

Answer 2

#settings.py
STATIC_URL = 'static/'
STATIC_ROOT=os.path.join(BASE_DIR,'static’)
MEDIA_ROOT =os.path.join(BASE_DIR,'media')
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'