Opened 15 years ago

Closed 4 years ago

#11707 closed Bug (fixed)

limit_choices_to on a ForeignKey can render duplicate options in formfield

Reported by: Chris.Wesseling@… Owned by: Crowley Shaita
Component: Forms Version: dev
Severity: Normal Keywords: ForeingKey limit_choices_to, dceu2011
Cc: Triage Stage: Ready for checkin
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

If you pass a Q object as limit_choices_to on a ForeignKey field involving a join, you may end up with duplicate options in your form.

See regressiontest in patch for a clear view on the problem.

Change History (44)

by Chris.Wesseling@…, 15 years ago

Attachment: limit_ForeignKey.patch added

comment:1 by Chris Beaven, 15 years ago

Triage Stage: UnreviewedReady for checkin

by Chris.Wesseling@…, 15 years ago

Attachment: limit_ForeignKey.2.patch added

in reply to:  1 comment:2 by anonymous, 15 years ago

Replying to SmileyChris:

I've updated the patch to resolve the conflicts I've had since you flagged this one as "Ready for checkin".
No real change.

by Chris.Wesseling@…, 15 years ago

Attachment: limit_ForeignKey.3.patch added

update resolving conflict

comment:3 by Chris.Wesseling@…, 15 years ago

Is there something I can do to get this checked in? I re-read the Triage docs. As far as I can see "A developer checks in the fix" is the only step left.

comment:4 by Chris Beaven, 15 years ago

The 1.2 roadmap shows that we're in a feature freeze. I'd suggest bringing this up on the django-dev google group a week or so after 1.2 final is released.

comment:5 by Luke Plant, 14 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

In [15607]:

Fixed #11707 - limit_choices_to on a ForeignKey can render duplicate options in formfield

Thanks to Chris Wesseling for the report and patch.

comment:6 by Luke Plant, 14 years ago

In [15610]:

[1.2.X] Fixed #11707 - limit_choices_to on a ForeignKey can render duplicate options in formfield

Thanks to Chris Wesseling for the report and patch.

Backport of [15607] from trunk.

comment:7 by Luke Plant, 14 years ago

In [15791]:

Fixed #15559 - distinct queries introduced by [15607] cause errors with some custom model fields

This patch just reverts [15607] until a more satisfying solution can be
found.

Refs #11707

comment:8 by Luke Plant, 14 years ago

In [15792]:

[1.2.X] Fixed #15559 - distinct queries introduced by [15607] cause errors with some custom model fields

This patch just reverts [15607] until a more satisfying solution can be
found.

Refs #11707

Backport of [15791] from trunk.

comment:9 by Luke Plant, 14 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: closedreopened

Re-opened due to the fix being reverted, as above. For future reference, a possible alternative solution might be to do filtering of duplicates in Python, at the point of rendering the form field, rather than in the database.

comment:10 by Russell Keith-Magee, 14 years ago

Patch needs improvement: set
Triage Stage: Ready for checkinAccepted

in reply to:  7 ; comment:11 by Chris Wesseling, 14 years ago

Replying to lukeplant:

(The changeset message doesn't reference this ticket)

Can someone point me to an example of such a custom model field or, even better, a test showing the breakage?

Replying to lukeplant:

For future reference, a possible alternative solution might be to do filtering of duplicates in Python, at the point of rendering the form field, rather than in the database.

Assuming 'limit_choices_to' is only used by Forms...

in reply to:  11 comment:12 by anonymous, 14 years ago

Replying to charstring:

Replying to lukeplant:

(The changeset message doesn't reference this ticket)

Can someone point me to an example of such a custom model field or, even better, a test showing the breakage?

The discussion linked from the description of the other ticket has an example. It's in dpaste so may not be long-lived. Copying here for reference:

class PointField(models.Field):
    description = _("A geometric point")

    __metaclass__ = models.SubfieldBase

    pattern = re.compile('^\(([\d\.]+),([\d\.]+)\)$')

    def db_type(self, connection):
        if connection.settings_dict['ENGINE'] is not 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2':
            return None

        return 'point'

    def to_python(self, value):
        if isinstance(value, tuple):
            return (float(value[0]), float(value[1]))

        if not value:
            return (0, 0)

        match = self.pattern.findall(value)[0]
        return (float(match[0]), float(match[1]))

    def get_prep_value(self, value):
        return self.to_python(value)

    def get_db_prep_value(self, value, connection, prepared=False):
        # Casts dates into the format expected by the backend
        if not prepared:
            value = self.get_prep_value(value)
        return '({0}, {1})'.format(value[0], value[1])

    def get_prep_lookup(self, lookup_type, value):
        raise TypeError('Lookup type %r not supported.' % lookup_type)

    def value_to_string(self, obj):
        value = self._get_val_from_obj(obj)
        return self.get_db_prep_value(value)

comment:13 by Julien Phalip, 14 years ago

Severity: Normal
Type: Bug

comment:14 by Simon Meers, 14 years ago

Easy pickings: unset

This is nasty because it not only renders duplicates but also blows up when .get() is called on the queryset if you select one of the duplicates (MultipleObjectsReturned).

comment:15 by Chris Wesseling, 14 years ago

Owner: changed from nobody to Chris Wesseling
Status: reopenednew
UI/UX: unset

comment:16 by Chris Wesseling, 14 years ago

Keywords: dceu2011 added
Patch needs improvement: unset

Talked to Russ. Picked one of the unclean solutions:

filter in python before displaying and checking again before getting the choice.

Thanks to Jonas and Roald!

by Chris Wesseling, 14 years ago

Attachment: limit_ForeignKey.4.patch added

just removed a the previous fix from the comments

comment:17 by Simon Litchfield, 13 years ago

This issue also breaks ModelChoiceField - MultipleObjectsReturned error

in reply to:  17 comment:18 by Chris Wesseling, 13 years ago

Replying to simon29:

This issue also breaks ModelChoiceField - MultipleObjectsReturned error

By "this issue also breaks", do you mean, you've tried the patch and it needs improvement?

If it does work, please set it to "ready for checkin".

by Chris Wesseling, 13 years ago

backported to 1.2.X and refactored to reduce complexity

by Chris Wesseling, 13 years ago

Refactored less complex against trunk

by Chris Wesseling, 13 years ago

against 1.3.X branch

comment:19 by Jacob, 13 years ago

Discussion from IRC:

[02:24am] I don't see a test case here that emulates the failures seen when the previous (committed then reverted) approach. Am I just missing it?
[09:26am] jacobkm: I also can't say I'm particularly happy with the patch, particularly iterating over the qs in distinct_choices().
[09:26am] chars:It's pretty hard to test for me. It's a case where Postgres can't compare the values.
[09:26am] chars: So it can't test for uniqueness
[09:26am] jacobkm: It also needs additions to documentation to mention that Q() objects are acceptable in limit_choices_to.

in reply to:  19 comment:20 by anonymous, 13 years ago

Replying to jacob:

Discussion from IRC:

[09:26am] jacobkm: It also needs additions to documentation to mention that Q() objects are acceptable in limit_choices_to.

Documentation on ForeignKey.limit_choices_to already mentions: "Instead of a dictionary this can also be a Q object for more complex queries."

Further discussion:

17:00 < chars> jacobkm: The only known case that broke the original .distinct() 
               solution was in Postgres. So maybe if #6422 gets accepted, we 
               could test for the distinct_on_fields feature and then distinct 
               on the pk, which is unique by definition.
17:00 < jacobkm> chars: see now *that* makes me a lot happier.
17:00 < chars> And fallback to the vanilla .distinct() if the backend doesn't 
               support it.

That's #6422.

comment:21 by Chris Wesseling, 13 years ago

DISTINCT is just a special GROUP BY...

So an empty .annotate() does the trick too, since it groups by the pk. And the DBMS should by definition be able to compare pk's.
I'll try to put up a patch tonight.

in reply to:  21 ; comment:22 by Chris Wesseling, 11 years ago

Replying to charstring:

DISTINCT is just a special GROUP BY...

So an empty .annotate() does the trick too, since it groups by the pk. And the DBMS should by definition be able to compare pk's.
I'll try to put up a patch tonight.

Well, that was a long night. ;)
I got implemented the .annotate() solution in here https://github.com/CharString/django/tree/ticket-11707

Is the PointField mentioned in 12 the same as the one that now lives in django.contrib.gis?

comment:23 by Tim Graham, 11 years ago

Patch needs improvement: set

I think the PointField in comment 12 is a custom field that's different from the one in contrib.gis. It's difficult for me to tell from the comments what the issue was. In any case, I'm going to mark this as "Patch needs improvement" since it appears it needs additional tests.

in reply to:  22 comment:24 by Chris Wesseling, 11 years ago

Replying to charstring:

Is the PointField mentioned in 12 the same as the one that now lives in django.contrib.gis?

No, it isn't. I've installed postgis for this bug. postgis points *can* be tested on equality.. the PointField in 12 uses the builtin postgres point type, *not* the postgis point type that django.crontib.gis does.

comment:25 by Crowley Shaita, 4 years ago

Owner: changed from Chris Wesseling to Crowley Shaita
Status: newassigned

comment:26 by Crowley Shaita, 4 years ago

Triage Stage: AcceptedReady for checkin

comment:28 by Carlton Gibson, 4 years ago

Patch needs improvement: unset
Triage Stage: Ready for checkinAccepted

Unchecking Patch needs improvement so that this goes back into the review queue.

comment:29 by Crowley Shaita, 4 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

comment:30 by Mariusz Felisiak, 4 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: closednew

Patch is not merged.

comment:31 by Crowley Shaita, 4 years ago

Triage Stage: AcceptedUnreviewed

comment:32 by Mariusz Felisiak, 4 years ago

Triage Stage: UnreviewedAccepted

Crowley, please stop changing a triage stage without any reason.

in reply to:  32 comment:33 by Crowley Shaita, 4 years ago

Replying to felixxm:

Crowley, please stop changing a triage stage without any reason.

Sorry, I thought that's how I would get it to be reviewed.

comment:34 by Mariusz Felisiak, 4 years ago

Patch needs improvement: set

comment:35 by Crowley Shaita, 4 years ago

Patch needs improvement: unset

comment:36 by Mariusz Felisiak, 4 years ago

Triage Stage: AcceptedReady for checkin

comment:37 by Mariusz Felisiak <felisiak.mariusz@…>, 4 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

In 556fa4bb:

Fixed #1891, Fixed #11707 -- Prevented duplicates with limit_choices_to on multi-value relations.

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