Widgets should be able to rendered separately

[fero <luca.ferroni@…>]

Hello, I spent this evening in trying to make the SplitDateTimeWidget working in the template.
I get a bound_field and I'd like to split visualization of date and time like this:

{% load i18n %}
<p class="datetime">

{% trans "Date:" %} a {{ bound_field.form.fields.datetime_start.fields.0 }}<br />
{% trans "Time:" %} b {{ bound_field.field.fields.1.widget }}

</p>

I can't make it works ! I tried many permutations of the components form, fields, field_name and widget and I've never reached a results.
Please correct this bug asap.

[Matt Riggott]

From what I gather, the request here is to allow widgets on bound fields to be rendered separately, which django.newforms doesn't currently allow. If so, this affects more than just SplitDateTimeWidget and SplitDateTimeField.

To solve this you could sub-class a widget's render method and roll your own, but a generic Django solution might be worthwhile. Marked as design decision needed.

[Matt Riggott]

A brief discussion on #django-sprint led to agreement that this isn't a common enough task to need support in Django core. Solution is to sub-class fields and widgets.