Opened 13 years ago

Closed 13 years ago

Last modified 13 years ago

#16887 closed New feature (wontfix)

Allow Update/CreateView to have fields/exclude arguments

Reported by: linovia Owned by: linovia
Component: Generic views Version: 1.3
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: yes Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

The general idea behind generic views is to ease the development.
One of the issue I have found is that removing fields from the form leads to extra work by redefining another model form for that view.

class MilestoneForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = models.Milestone
        exclude = ('project', 'slug')

class CreateMilestone(generic.CreateView):
    model = models.Milestone
    template_name_suffix = 's/new'
    form_class = MilestoneForm

whereas we could have a much simpler way:

class CreateMilestone(generic.CreateView):
    model = models.Milestone
    template_name_suffix = 's/new'
    exclude = ('project', 'slug')

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update_view.patch (670 bytes ) - added by linovia 13 years ago.

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Change History (5)

by linovia, 13 years ago

Attachment: update_view.patch added

comment:1 by linovia, 13 years ago

Needs tests: set

comment:2 by linovia, 13 years ago

Owner: changed from nobody to linovia

comment:3 by Russell Keith-Magee, 13 years ago

Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed

I can see what you're trying to do here; I'm just not convinced it's the right way to go. exclude isn't the only Meta argument for a form, so the end-game of what you're proposing is for UpdateView and CreateView to also accept all the arguments that ModelForm.meta can take.

Personally, I put this down as a case for "Explict is better than implicit"; yes, it's slightly more typing to require an explicit form definition, but it's also very clear which arguments are form related, and which are view related. It also means that there's no potential for argument collision between the namespace for form arguments, and the namespace for view arguments.

comment:4 by linovia, 13 years ago

Hi russellm.

I think this is a good thing for newcomers and there isn't more from the form that we need to introduce back in the view.
modelform_factory doesn't allow much more arguments than those two.

On the other hand I agree that it may create a namespace collision which could do more harm than good.

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