heya,
*Disclaimer: This is about the the Django Docs, and a possible suggestion
for it - apologies if this isn't the correct group (but I didn't think it
quite fell into django-users).
*
The official Django Docs for forms offers up the following pattern for Form
view code:
def contact(request):
> if request.method == 'POST': # If the form has been submitted...
> form = ContactForm(request.POST) # A form bound to the POST data
> if form.is_valid(): # All validation rules pass
> # Process the data in form.cleaned_data
> # ...
> return HttpResponseRedirect('/thanks/') # Redirect after POST
> else:
> form = ContactForm() # An unbound form
> return render_to_response('contact.html', {
> 'form': form,
> })
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/forms/
I was just viewing a talk by pydanny and Miguel Araujo at DjangoCon US 2011
on "Advanced Django Form Usage", and they offered up what they seem to feel
was a better pattern for form viewcode:
def some_view(request, template_name="someapp/someform.html")
> form = MyForm(request.POST or None)
> if form.is_valid():
> do_x()
> return redirect('Home')
> return render(request, template_name {'form': form}).
http://speakerdeck.com/u/pydanny/p/advanced-django-forms-usage (Slide 13)
Now, apart from being shorter, I don't think I know enough about Django or
forms to know which one is actually "better" overall. However, what's the
community's consensus on this?
If it is better, is there any scope for having it in the official Django
docs? Or even adding it as an alternative approach, and discussing the
pros/cons?
Cheers,
Victor
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