#5986: Easy way to customize ordering of fields on forms that use inheritance
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Reporter: emes | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: new
Component: Forms | Version: master
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: field order weight | Triage Stage: Accepted
form newforms | Needs documentation: 0
Has patch: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Needs tests: 0 | UI/UX: 0
Easy pickings: 0 |
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Changes (by timgraham):
* needs_docs: 1 => 0
* has_patch: 1 => 0
* stage: Unreviewed => Accepted
Comment:
Pre-Django 1.7, the following worked, but relied on internal
implementation details (that `self.fields` was `SortedDict`; now it's
`OrderedDict`):
{{{
class EditForm(forms.Form):
summary = forms.CharField()
description = forms.CharField(widget=forms.TextArea)
class CreateForm(EditForm):
name = forms.CharField()
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
super(CreateForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
self.fields.keyOrder = ['name', 'summary', 'description']
}}}
Adding an official API for making ordering easier on forms that use
inheritance seems reasonable. I'm not sure if recommending `base_fields`
is the best approach as that's not public API as of now.
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