Merge pull request #893 from void-witch/fix-date

fix the book edit confirmation template dropping initial data for dates

bookwyrm/views/books.py

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 """ the good stuff! the books! """
+from datetime import datetime
 from uuid import uuid4
 
+from dateutil.parser import parse as dateparse
 from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required, permission_required
 from django.contrib.postgres.search import SearchRank, SearchVector
 from django.core.files.base import ContentFile
@@ -10,6 +12,7 @@ from django.db.models import Avg, Q
 from django.http import HttpResponseBadRequest, HttpResponseNotFound
 from django.shortcuts import get_object_or_404, redirect
 from django.template.response import TemplateResponse
+from django.utils.datastructures import MultiValueDictKeyError
 from django.utils.decorators import method_decorator
 from django.views import View
 from django.views.decorators.http import require_POST
@@ -172,6 +175,20 @@ class EditBook(View):
             data["confirm_mode"] = True
             # this isn't preserved because it isn't part of the form obj
             data["remove_authors"] = request.POST.getlist("remove_authors")
+            # we have to make sure the dates are passed in as datetime, they're currently a string
+            # QueryDicts are immutable, we need to copy
+            formcopy = data["form"].data.copy()
+            try:
+                formcopy["first_published_date"] = dateparse(
+                    formcopy["first_published_date"]
+                )
+            except MultiValueDictKeyError:
+                pass
+            try:
+                formcopy["published_date"] = dateparse(formcopy["published_date"])
+            except MultiValueDictKeyError:
+                pass
+            data["form"].data = formcopy
             return TemplateResponse(request, "book/edit_book.html", data)
 
         remove_authors = request.POST.getlist("remove_authors")