On Jan 29, 12:35 am, Malcolm Tredinnick <malc...@pointy-stick.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 04:27 -0800, Vinay Sajip wrote: > > I'd like to attach some user-defined meta-information to individual > > model fields and have it also be available in the corresponding form > > fields. Ideally, I'd have liked to have a keyword arg on the fields... > > > class MyModel(models.Model): > > name = models.CharField(max_length=100, info=some_object) > > active = models.BooleanField(info=some_other_object) > > > Ideally, this information would be available in the corresponding form > > field. > > > What's the best way of achieving this DRY-ly? > > Creating form and model field subclasses. You'll need to override the > model field's __init__ method to handle the extra kwarg and the > formfield() method. >
I was hoping there was another way. Of course subclassing's not hard to do, but it means doing it for every field class. I was looking at moving an application over from SQLAlchemy, which offers this feature both for models and fields. Thanks, Vinay Sajip --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
