Tutorial about how to write custom form fields in django?
customization, django, django-forms
Solution
Form fields are easy to customize:
class UpperCaseField(forms.CharField):
def clean(self, value)
try:
return value.upper()
except:
raise ValidationError
basically you just create a class that inherits from the field that most resembles what you want, then rewrite the clean() method so that it returns the value you want. Here is another example:
class MyObjectField(forms.ModelChoiceField):
# in this case, 'value' is a string representing
# the primary key of a MyObject
def clean(self, value):
try:
return MyObject.objects.get(pk=value)
except:
raise ValidationError
custom widgets on the other hand, are a little more useful, but a little more hard to do because there are a few more methods that need to be written so that they work smoothly.
Problem
Is there any good articles that explain custom form fields in django, not custom model fields? I couldn't find any through google.