On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Alex Jillard <mez...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to populate an admin form with the field names of of a model > class, but I don't want to have to instantiate that model just to read it's > fields from _meta. > > I basically want to do something like this: > > self.fields['sort_by'].choices = [(field.verbose_name, field.name) for > field in field_list] > > field_list would be the equivalent to model_instance._meta.fields, but > without requiring the model instance. > > I know I could just grab an instance of the model from the database, but > I'd like this to work even if there are no instances currently saved. > > > > _meta exists on the class as well, so on a ModelAdmin you can do self.model._meta.fields Alex -- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." --Voltaire "The people's good is the highest law."--Cicero --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
