Json widget for newforms

[riklaunim@…]

I've added a widget for newforms for handling Json data – it uses a text field that has a JSON string like {“a”:”b”, “c”:”d”} it displays it in a series of form inputs for every key-value. When saving data two lists are dumped into a dict and then into a JSON.

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The patch

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widget in action

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And it requires simplejson

[George Vilches]

I suspect that since this is a new widget, rather specialized (a form widget that creates JSON specially and directly from the form submission, instead of a separate post form data processing activity), and does not require inclusion in Django to work correctly, that it should be hosted externally until such impetus from the community makes it work including internally.

However, I'm not a core dev, so I can't make the final decision, but at best I see this as Someday/Maybe.

[mrts]

gav is right, this widget is too specific do justify inclusion in Django itself. Please post this to djangosnippets.

Marking as Someday/Maybe to ease ticket triaging for core devs.

[Russell Keith-Magee]

This is a pretty specific widget, for a fairly edge case requirement. It would be hard to argue that there is a widespread need for this capability. As gav and mrts noted, this is much better suited to djangosnippets, or a 3rd party widget library.