On 2008-01-08 18:46:02 -0700, Malcolm Tredinnick 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> 
> 
> On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 18:40 -0700, Brian Rosner wrote:
> [...]
> 
>> To write a patch I created a new widget named BoundFileInput that
>> inherits from MultiWidget to display the FileInput and HiddenInput
>> widgets. The FileInput widget works the same as it does now. The
>> HiddenInput widget maintains the data that came from the model. As I
>> understand it this is how it used to work in oldforms, but perhaps just
>> the admin in trunk.
> 
> I'd prefer that we worked out a way to get the initial data passed
> through. Sticking this in a hidden field would mean that you pretty much
> always have to include some kind of security hash as well to avoid the
> hidden field value being changed. This is why Russell's improvements for
> file uploading in newforms were a slightly better design.

Ok, that makes more sense. I had a feeling I was taking the wrong 
approach. I hadn't seen his proposal, perhaps I should have done a bit 
more research ;) Should FileField be special cased for initial data or 
make a global change to all fields?

> 
> Regards,
> Malcolm


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