On Wednesday, April 20, 2011 4:20:04 PM UTC+1, Dan wrote: > > I'm trying to create a Form Field, not a Model Field. > > The doc about creating a custom one is a tiny paragraph at the end of this > page: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/forms/fields/ > > I read the source code of django but I'm having trouble even finding where > exactly is the value stored in the field. > > <http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/forms/fields/>The problems I > have are that I don't know how to do the following: > > > - The field is going to receive an object and should render the name > property of that object in html (so far, I can only render the id). > - The page is going to POST a string containing the name of the object > (unique), it should be converted back to an object. > > Rendering is the job of the widget, not the field. You will need to define a custom widget and make that the default for your field.
Converting a POSTed value is the job of the field's `clean()` method. -- DR. -- 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.
