Malcolm has a really `good write-up`__ about the reasoning behind
newforms (and oldforms) and why it's not just part of the model.
If you find yourself having to do this sort of thing a lot, I would
suggest putting those BaseForm class definitions right next to the
model class in models.py. I do a similar thing with Managers. You
could even put the list of elements that need custom CSS classes
directly in your model. Or, better yet, make it a dictionary like
{ 'element: 'classname' }. Or even better still, maybe you could do
something like this in your model::
@property
def custom_class_list(self):
# you might have to strip out 'id' from this list
return [i.name for i in self._meta.fields]
And then just have a generic BaseForm that you use with all your
form_for_* generated-forms.
.. __: http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/msg/74aaef38380f2c31
Cheers.
- whiteinge
On Jun 24, 4:49 pm, l5x <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is a great stuff and I'm really glad that you show me that, but I
> still wonder if it is possible to do sth like that in a model ;-)
> I mean:
>
> Model looks like that:
>
> class ShortNews(models.Model):
> url = models.URLField("URL")
> description = models.CharField("Desc", maxlength="200")
> author = models.ForeignKey(User, editable=False)
> date = models.DateTimeField("Date", auto_now_add=True)
> status = models.IntegerField("Status", editable=False, default="0")
>
> and I don't know why it is not possible to do sth like:
>
> class ShortNews(models.Model):
> url = models.URLField("URL", attr['class':'required'])
> description = models.CharField("Desc", maxlength="200",
> attr['class':'highlight'])
> ..etc
>
> It's much faster than doing that at every form_for_* and you don't
> have to have it spread all over the code. But the point is, that I
> don't know if there is something which can allow to do that :)
>
> Thanks,
> l5x
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