Scaffold Script

We all know that "Every form is different" but sometimes they're quite similar. This script takes the names of an app and a model and spews out a simple set of form fields which you can then change as appropriate.

Usage is simple. Save the script next to manage.py in your project's directory and do something like this: ./scaffold.py -a ToDo -m Category

This is an interesting script to combine with ManipulatorScript

Enjoy

Example

From this:

class Category(meta.Model):
    category = meta.CharField(maxlength=50, unique=True)
    createdOn = meta.DateField(auto_now_add=True)
    modifiedOn = meta.DateField(auto_now=True)
    test = meta.ManyToManyField(auth.User, verbose_name='This is a test field', related_name='test')
    test2 = meta.OneToOneField(auth.User, verbose_name='test2', related_name='test2')

    def __repr__(self):
        return "%s" % (self.category,)

    class META:
        admin = meta.Admin()

To this:

<form method="POST" action=".">
  <p>
    <label for="id_category">category:</label>
    {{ form.category }}
    {% if form.category.errors %}
      *** {{ form.category.errors|join:", " }}
    {% endif %}
  </p>
  <p>
    <label for="id_createdOn">createdOn:</label>
    {{ form.createdOn }}
    {% if form.createdOn.errors %}
      *** {{ form.createdOn.errors|join:", " }}
    {% endif %}
  </p>
  <p>
    <label for="id_modifiedOn">modifiedOn:</label>
    {{ form.modifiedOn }}
    {% if form.modifiedOn.errors %}
      *** {{ form.modifiedOn.errors|join:", " }}
    {% endif %}
  </p>
  <p>
    <label for="id_test2">test2:</label>
    {{ form.test2 }}
    {% if form.test2.errors %}
      *** {{ form.test2.errors|join:", " }}
    {% endif %}
  </p>
  <p>
    <label for="id_test">This is a test field:</label>
    {{ form.test }}
    {% if form.test.errors %}
      *** {{ form.test.errors|join:", " }}
    {% endif %}
  </p>
<input type="submit" value="submit" />
</form>

TODO: shebang line should probably be #!/usr/bin/env python as in manage.py etc.