You're correct, we found the same thing on IRC. However, to get a
ChoiceField to render your choices in the Select widget, you set
field.widget.choices, not field.choices. This is, of course, not documented
and incredibly confusing. I'm filing a ticket on it now. Thanks for making
it clear.
On 12/27/06, Jason Barrett Prado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You're correct, we found the same thing on IRC. However, to get a
ChoiceField to render your choices in the Select widget, you set
field.widget.choices, not field.choices. This is, of course, not
documented and incredibly confusing. I'm filing a ticket on it now. Thanks
for making it clear.
On 12/27/06, Adrian Holovaty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On 12/27/06, Jason Barrett Prado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Is this even possible, or is it not implemented correctly yet? I have
> done
> > every last thing I can think of that makes any sense and the results
> are
> > never what I want.
> >
> > if not request.POST.has_key('submit'):
> > s = get_object_or_404(School, pk=school_name)
> > f = UserRegistrationForm()
> > f.fields ['house'].widget.choices = [('test','test')]
> > return render_to_response(' register.html', {'reg_form':f})
> > f = UserRegistrationForm(data=request.POST)
> > f.fields['house'].widget.choices = [('test','test')]
> > if not f.is_valid():
> > return render_to_response(' register.html', {'reg_form':f})
> >
> > I fill in the form and POST it and it tells me that 'test' is not a
> valid
> > response for house. Why? I can call clean and full_clean on the data
> after
> > changing the choices, but it doesn't help. How should one do this?
>
> I'm not quite sure what you're trying to do here, but my immediate
> answer is: Don't set the choices on the Widget. Set the choices on the
> Field. You're getting the validation error because the *Field* does
> validation, not the Widget, and a Field has to know what its valid
> choices are in order to do validation correctly.
>
> Adrian
>
> --
> Adrian Holovaty
> holovaty.com | djangoproject.com
>
> > >
>
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