#20267: default form values (not just initial)
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Reporter: clime | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: new
Component: Forms | Version: 1.5
Severity: Normal | Keywords: form, default
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Hello,
I am finding the "initial" functionality on forms lacking.
With this form:
{{{
class Form(forms.Form):
name = forms.CharField(required=False, initial='Hello world')
}}}
If in view, I do something like:
{{{
form = Form(request.GET)
if form.is_valid():
name = form.cleaned_data['name']
}}}
Then initial value of name is lost even if request.GET does not contain
name as key.
Why there is not just "default" attribute that would maintain the default
value until being explicitly overwritten by request data? There are so few
things I find inconvenient in Django but this is one of them.
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/20267>
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