[patch] newforms: I'd like to have a group functionality in forms

[ivan]

I use my custom group fields in my class forms.

I set an attribute in my form class:

 class myform(forms):
     field1 = ...
     field2 = ...
     group_myfields = ['field1','field2']

field1 and field2 are fields sets in my custom form class.

I can retrive html output, writing this:

myform().myfields.as_p()
myform().myfields.as_table()

and retrive only fileds listed in group_myfields.

[Honza Král <Honza.Kral@…>]

proper patch format

[Honza Král <Honza.Kral@…>]

I just created a patch using svn diff for easier review by others...

The code seems to be working - all tests pass and it doesn't interfere with rest of the code. On the other hand I feel like more work needs to be done on this - its not systematic and rather hackish...

[Adrian Holovaty]

I'm not sure whether this functionality is worth adding...

[Adrian Holovaty]

Fixed formatting in description.

[Jacob]

There's really no reason to add this as a built-in -- it's easy to do yourself:

class MyForm(Form):
   field1 = ...
   field2 = ...

   @property
   def mygroup(self):
      return {'field1': self.field1, 'field2': self.field2}

This gets you the same {{ form.mygroup.field1 }} behavior you're looking for. It could be further abstracted out into an abstract Form subclass if you need to do this often.