This must be a fairly common need so I'd love some help figuring out
why I've made it so complicated.
I've got a CharField "days_available" with choices set to a tuple of
weekdays (e.g. Monday, Tuesday, etc.).
In my form I am representing this field as a forms.MultipleChoiceField
so that multiple days can be selected.
When it comes time to save, if I don't do anything then an exception
gets thrown because the form field returns a list [u'Monday',
u'Tuesday']. I found a way to get around this, namely write a clean
function for that field that joins the values with a comma into a
string:
def clean_days_available(self):
return ",".join(self.cleaned_data['days_available'])
However this also means that when I load the form I have to convert
that string back into a list. I haven't found a good place to do that
yet so I'm doing it in my view.
First question: is there a convenient Django function I'm missing that
would be the preferred place to do this?
Second question: Am I overcomplicating this?
Thanks,
Kevin
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