Hi,
> I'm trying to do what I like to call "dynamically set a form's field".
> I want the user to input a dictionary e.g.
> { 'intField' : 'int',
> 'strField' : 'str' }
> ...to the constructor of the form which will then create the fields
> 'intField' (forms.IntegerField) and 'strField' (forms.CharField).
>
> I have looked at Django's forms.py but I can't figure out how to do
> it. This is what I have so far, which of course is not working:
>
> class DynamicForm(forms.Form):
>
> def __init__(self, data):
>
> # The translations between types and fields.
> field_from_type = {
> 'int' : forms.IntegerField,
> 'float' : forms.FloatField,
> 'boolean' : forms.BooleanField,
> 'string' : forms.CharField,
> }
>
> # Dynamically add fields and stuff.
> for k, v in data.iteritems():
> setattr(self, k, field_from_type[v]())
If you replaced that setattr call with the following, it should work:
self.fields[k] = field_from_type[v]()
-Rajesh D
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