#24295: Allow specifying form field types in a ModelForm's Meta
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Reporter: loic | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: new
Component: Forms | Version: master
Severity: Normal | Keywords:
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 0
Needs documentation: 0 | Needs tests: 0
Patch needs improvement: 0 | Easy pickings: 0
UI/UX: 0 |
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It's currently very fiddly to use a custom form field together with
`ModelForm`.
You can either set the field declaratively, which requires redefining all
the attributes that would be automatically pulled from the model. It is
not very DRY and quite error-prone, especially when it comes to `required`
/ `blank`. Or you can abuse `models.Field.formfield` by doing: `my_field =
MyModel._meta.get_field('my_field').formfield(form_class=MyCustomField)`.
This ticket proposes allowing:
{{{
class ArticleForm(ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Article
fields = ['pub_date', 'headline', 'content', 'reporter', 'slug']
field_classes = {
'slug': MySlugFormField,
}
}}}
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24295>
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