>
> My suggestion would be to add the new keyword argument which enable the
> new behavior and keep the attr-thing as is.
> I could add a warning if someone uses the "old" style. It is a bit
> suggestive though.
Whilst it's not the normal way of deprecating things in Django, I'm not
against it. Would we ever block attrs={'multiple':True} though? Afaiu there
would still be use cases for setting that attribute and doing custom
multiple file handling. Maybe even a warning wouldn't be necessary.
On Sat, 25 Aug 2018 at 21:05, Johannes Hoppe <i...@johanneshoppe.com> wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> I do need some feedback on the best public API to implement multi file
> support to Django forms.
>
> Context:
>
> Up until now Django forms do not support multi file upload. You will need
> to write your own view to handle the files as described here:
>
> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/topics/http/file-uploads/#uploading-multiple-files
>
> Of course it is not too hard to implement actual multi file support as I
> have been showcasing here:
> https://github.com/django/django/pull/9011/files
>
> The question is now to best add support for multiple file uploads without
> wrecking backwards compatibility?
>
> As Tim wisely mentioned, it might be confusing to add a `multiple`
> argument to the FileField while also having the
> attrs={'multiple': True}
> still in the mix.
>
> My suggestion would be to add the new keyword argument which enable the
> new behavior and keep the attr-thing as is.
> I could add a warning if someone uses the "old" style. It is a bit
> suggestive though.
>
> What do you think, mabe look at the documentation changes in the PR for
> more context.
>
> Best
> -Joe
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