one last question: how do I pass the paramaters from the view to the form?
thanks, patrick On Aug 20, 5:56 pm, "Brian Rosner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 9:34 AM, patrickk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ok. I know how to use BaseFormSet, but how do I override > > _construct_form resp. how do I pass the parameters. btw, it seems > > quite odd to override _construct_form when usually one has to override > > __init__. > > You need to understand the level of abstraction here. Of course the > API can be improved to provide a way to pass custom parameters to the > forms, but certainly that would seem prohibiting and people will > eventually need to override something. > > It is basic Python OO at this point. Subclass _construct_form and call > the parent method. The signature of _construct_form allows you to pass > your own keyword arguments to the form in which case this is what you > would do with your two arguments. > > class MyBaseFormSet(BaseFormSet): > def _construct_form(self, i, **kwargs): > kwargs["my_own_argument"] = "my value" > return super(MyBaseFormSet, self)._construct_form(i, **kwargs) > > > > > > > On Aug 20, 5:21 pm, "Brian Rosner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 9:10 AM, patrickk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > my upload form looks like this: > > >> > class UploadForm(forms.Form): > > >> > def __init__(self, path_server, path, *args, **kwargs): > >> > self.path_server = path_server > >> > self.path = path > >> > super(UploadForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) > > >> > file = forms.FileField(label="File") > >> > use_image_generator = forms.BooleanField() > > >> > def clean_file(self): > >> > ... > > >> > now, I´d like to use UploadFormSet = formset_factory(UploadForm, > >> > extra=5). > >> > question is: where do I set path_server & path? > > >> You must subclass django.forms.formsets.BaseFormSet and override > >> _construct_form to pass in your parameters. Then you can pass your > >> FormSet subclass as the base of the FormSet returned by > >> formset_factory like so: formset_factory(UploadForm, > >> formset=BaseUploadFormSet, extra=5). > > >> -- > >> Brian Rosnerhttp://oebfare.com > > -- > Brian Rosnerhttp://oebfare.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
