On 2/12/07, Scott Paul Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 07:45:52AM -0800, RonnyPfannschmidt wrote:
> >
> > The actual method of creating Model related forms is a set of
> > functions returning form classes
> >
> > thats nice to use, but not very nice to extend
> >
> > Im proposing a Base class wich allows to pass models/instances to
> > generate forms, or inherit to extend the forms
> >
> >
> > default usage would be ModelForm(model=MyModel),
> > ModelForm(instance=myinstance)
> > or ModelForm(model=MyModel,object_id=myid)
> >
> >
> > extending would be something like
> >
> > class EntryForm(ModelForm):
> > Model = Entry
> > remove_fields=("some","private","fields")
> > # some fields of entry need custom formfields, so lets just set
> > them up
> > text = SaveXHTMLField(widget=TinyMCEWidget)
> > def clean_title(self):
> > pass # i should really do the check here
> >
> >
> > to make a AddForm i would just use EntryForm()
> > to get a EditForm i'd just use EntryForm(instance=e) or
> > EntryForm(object_id=entry_id)
> >
>
> I've actually been using newforms with regards to models recently. I
> don't think there is a need for a new class to extend. Rather, you could
> easily do the same in models.form_for_model with extra arguemts (which
> don't exist at the moment).
>
> IE:
> form_for_model(Entry, not_required=['some','private','fields'])
>
> Also changing widgets is a breeze:
> EntryForm.fields['text'].widget = some.widget.class()
>
> You can still add clean methods after the fact by assigning functions to
> EntryForm.clean_title, ie:
> EntryForm.clean_title = lambda self: pass # do stuff
>
> --
> Scott Paul Robertson
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>
or, since we are in python, this should also work:
class MyModelForm( forms_for_model(Model) ):
#define what you want here...delete fields in __init__ etc.
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