id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,stage,has_patch,needs_docs,needs_tests,needs_better_patch,easy,ui_ux 1608,When using a non existent field as part of a models representation django throws a TemplateSyntaxError,info@…,Adrian Holovaty,"Using this model: {{{ #!python class Product(meta.Model): travelCode = meta.CharField('Reiscode', maxlength=7, primary_key=True) class Unit(meta.Model): travelCode = meta.ForeignKey(Product) def __repr__(self): return ""%s %s"" % (self.get_travelCode(), self.nonexistentfield) class META: admin = meta.Admin() }}} Displaying Unit in the admin interface works for the Unit overview, even though self.nonexistentfield does not exist. When one selects an entry for editting, Django throws the following TemplateSyntaxError: ------------------ {{{ Traceback (most recent call last): File ""/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Django-0.91-py2.4.egg/django/core/servers/basehttp.py"", line 272, in run self.result = application(self.environ, self.start_response) File ""/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Django-0.91-py2.4.egg/django/core/servers/basehttp.py"", line 615, in __call__ return self.application(environ, start_response) File ""/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Django-0.91-py2.4.egg/django/core/handlers/wsgi.py"", line 155, in __call__ response = self.get_response(request.path, request) File ""/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Django-0.91-py2.4.egg/django/core/handlers/base.py"", line 109, in get_response return self.get_technical_error_response(request) File ""/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Django-0.91-py2.4.egg/django/core/handlers/base.py"", line 139, in get_technical_error_response return debug.technical_500_response(request, *sys.exc_info()) File ""/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Django-0.91-py2.4.egg/django/views/debug.py"", line 126, in technical_500_response return HttpResponseServerError(t.render(c), mimetype='text/html') File ""/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Django-0.91-py2.4.egg/django/core/template/__init__.py"", line 146, in render return self.nodelist.render(context) File ""/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Django-0.91-py2.4.egg/django/core/template/__init__.py"", line 707, in render bits.append(self.render_node(node, context)) File ""/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Django-0.91-py2.4.egg/django/core/template/__init__.py"", line 725, in render_node result = node.render(context) File ""/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Django-0.91-py2.4.egg/django/core/template/defaulttags.py"", line 112, in render nodelist.append(node.render(context)) File ""/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Django-0.91-py2.4.egg/django/core/template/defaulttags.py"", line 179, in render return self.nodelist_true.render(context) File ""/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Django-0.91-py2.4.egg/django/core/template/__init__.py"", line 707, in render bits.append(self.render_node(node, context)) File ""/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Django-0.91-py2.4.egg/django/core/template/__init__.py"", line 735, in render_node raise wrapped TemplateSyntaxError: Caught an exception while rendering. }}} ------------------ On the front end a similar error is thrown when one tries to use the model object's representation. The error is especially unclear because it refers to a Template error while this essentially is a model error. A model exception stating that the model does not contain such a field would be nicer. ",defect,closed,Core (Other),0.91,normal,worksforme,,,Unreviewed,0,0,0,0,0,0