Re: Help with implementing calculated fields (#28822)

2021-03-14 Thread schinckel
Hi Tobias. I've done a bit of stuff on this, and found there were actually limited changes that need to be made to django to got this to work. https://schinckel.net/2020/09/15/django-properties-from-expressions%2C-or-computedfield-part-2/ I haven't touched it much since then (although I'm keen

Separate context and rendering in forms

2021-03-14 Thread dy...@dyve.net
I've been working on packages that generate HTML based on Django forms for a while. I find myself duplicating certain parts of Django code, because there is no clear separation of the context (as in template context) that is being generated, and the HTML output. A small example of this is the code

Help with implementing calculated fields (#28822)

2021-03-14 Thread Tobias Bengfort
Hi, a while back there has been a discussion about calculated model fields: https://groups.google.com/g/django-developers/c/ADSuUUuZp3Q/m/5o02Lp_jCwAJ The main benefit would be that these would be available in cases where annotations are currently not available, e.g. related queries or admin