Opened 17 years ago

Closed 17 years ago

Last modified 17 years ago

#4417 closed (duplicate)

Add media descriptions to newforms widgets

Reported by: Russell Keith-Magee Owned by: Adrian Holovaty
Component: Forms Version: dev
Severity: Keywords: media css javascript
Cc: Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

A newforms widget currently defines the way to render a user interface input element. However, in order to make interesting input elements, you also need other media - i.e., Javascript and CSS. These requirements can be defined on a per-widget basis (a Date field requires a Calendar widget; the calendar widget requires media/calendar.js and media/calendar.css).

At present, there is no easy way to:

  1. identify what media is required to display a form
  2. identify and eliminate any duplicate media requirements, e.g., a base css file required by two different widgets on a form.

newforms-admin has some hand rolled functionality to determine Javascript requirements for a page. This ticket describes a more general solution that could be applied to any widget, and therefore to any form.

It involves adding a meta-class to Widget that processes a 'Media' inner class; this inner class is turned into a 'Media' object. Media objects can be printed (yielding <link> and <script> statements). Media objects can also be added, so media from one widget can be added to another widget, yielding the union of required media.

Forms are also modified; you can interrogate form.media to find out the union of all CSS and JavaScript required by a given form.

Discussed in detail here:
http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_thread/thread/58fc9cab819c08b9/af54bb9c638fede7#af54bb9c638fede7

Change History (2)

comment:1 by Russell Keith-Magee, 17 years ago

Resolution: duplicate
Status: newclosed

Something went wonky during submission. This was duplicated as [4418].

comment:2 by Brian Rosner <brosner@…>, 17 years ago

I believe Russell meant to say #4418 the ticket and not the changeset ;)

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