Enhanced MultiWidget rendering using a layout

[Miguel Araujo]

Hi,

I have worked on an enhacement of MultiWidget that easily lets you control the rendering of a subclass using a layout, it's called MultiWidgetLayout. You can find it here:
​https://github.com/maraujop/django-MultiWidgetLayout

Cheers,
Miguel

[Andreas Pelme]

Thanks for the contribution!

Having a more flexible way to specify output from form fields is a long standing issue. Gregor Müllegger has been working on a GSoC project this year regarding revised form rendering, using templates and a set of new tags for flexible form layouts.

I am not a core developer, but I think this approach is too narrow and specific for a particular widget to be included in Django itself. Also, your widget puts the display logic in the Python code instead of a template, which is the opposite direction of the GSoC work. I suggest you keep it on github and make it available for pip/easy_install installation on PyPi so other people who are interested can try it out and use it! Custom widgets and fields can easily live outside of Django itself.

Here are some info about rendering forms via templates related to the GSoC project, if you are interested:

​http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_thread/thread/8eb1f07bfd949ab7 (The original proposal)
​https://github.com/gregmuellegger/django/tree/soc2011/form-rendering (The branch which contains the GSoC code)

If you search on the django-developers mailing list you will find more information and discussions about improving the state of form rendering.

[Julien Phalip]

I generally agree with andreas_pelme's assessment and recommendations. At this stage this proposal is a bit too vague and it would need to be discussed more extensively before it can materialize as a ticket. So I would recommend you to bring this up on the django-dev mailing list with a more detailed proposal, and perhaps reopen this ticket once the general direction has been fleshed out. Thanks again for your suggestion!