I think I figured it out. My TYPE_MAPPING thing was causing the form
fields to be initialized *once*. So, I made the contents of
TYPE_MAPPING into strings, and I'm using eval().
Unless there's a better way, I'm leaving it like this in
production :-)
On Mar 9, 10:01 am, Steven Smith <ste...@stevenlsmith.com> wrote:
> I have data that looks like this:
> formfields = [{'label': u'IP address of hacker', 'type': u'String',
> 'name': u'locationIp'}, {'label': u'Created end date', 'type':
> u'Date', 'name': u'createdEndDate'}, {'label': u'Created start date',
> 'type': u'Date', 'name': u'createdStartDate'}]
>
> I want to generate a forms.Form object from it, so I wrote the
> following code (ReportForm is just an empty declaration of a form
> class):
>
> ---------
>
> TYPE_MAPPING = {
> 'Date': forms.DateTimeField(required=True,
> widget=forms.DateTimeInput({'class': 'datetime'})),
> 'String': forms.CharField(max_length=100, required=True),
> 'Long': forms.IntegerField(required=False),
> 'Integer': forms.IntegerField(required=False),
> 'Boolean': forms.BooleanField(required=False),
>
> }
>
> def get_form_for_report(formfields, postdata=None):
> if postdata:
> form = ReportForm(postdata)
> else:
> form = ReportForm()
> attrs = formfields.reverse()
> for f in attrs:
> form.fields.insert(1, f['name'], TYPE_MAPPING.get(f['type']))
> form.fields[f['name']].label = f['label']
> return form
>
> ---------
>
> However, when this code executes, the form generated works perfectly,
> but the label is not always set properly. In this particular example,
> I get two fields (with correct field names) that have the label
> "Created Start Date".
>
> Where I am going wrong here?
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