#20000: Allow overriding `label`, `help_text` and `error_messages` for the
default
fields in `ModelForm`
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Reporter: loic84 | Owner: loic84
Type: New feature | Status: new
Component: Forms | Version: master
Severity: Normal | Keywords:
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 1
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Currently `ModelForm` requires to completely redefine fields in order to
customize user-facing strings such as `labels`, `help_texts` and
`error_messages`.
This leads to a lot of boilerplate code to anyone who wants to customize
these, but most importantly it's an error prone process. The bigger the
ModelForm becomes, the more difficult it is to ensure functional parity
between the `Model` fields and the `Form` fields for the critical parts
such as blank/required, default, validators, etc.
One shouldn't be at risk of completely breaking a form functionality in
order to make small cosmetic changes.
It's understood that we have to draw a line somewhere, else we would have
field definitions in the `Meta`, but I believe that line should be drawn
at "anything cosmetic" available through `Meta` overrides, and "anything
functional" through fields overrides. I believe the currently provided
`widgets` lie in between the two, so it's almost surprising that it was
added as a convenience in a first place instead of the purely cosmetic
options.
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