Hello all, I've been playing around with the newforms library and I'd like to check that I'm on the right track.
I've got a fairly complicated model that has a few foreign keys and m2m fields. One of the m2m fields references a table with ~130,000 rows so the usual select boxes aren't that usable. I've created a form which simplifies the entry but I would like to check the preferred way of doing certain things. 1. Additional validation - One field is a RegexField but I would like to add extra validation. At the moment I've subclassed it and added my own 'clean' method. 2. Saving the model - I've implemented a save method in the form which will return an instance of the model in a similar fashion to form_for_model. Is this good practice or should I create the instance in my view and populate it from the form? 3. Binding data - I'd like the form to handle editing of an instance. I could construct a dictionary of values and pass it to the form as per the docs but I'd like to just pass a model instance and have the form sort things out. Is this advisable? If so then does anyone have any pointers about what methods I need to implement? Thanks in advance for any pointers. Felix P.S. Are there any thoughts about form inheritance? I'd like to be able to create a form base on another but with some more fields. At the moment this doesn't seem to work as expected... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
