MultiWidget to support named sub widgets

[Collin Anderson]

It would be nice if MultiWidget would support names for its sub widgets.

Currently if

widgets = (TextInput(attrs=attrs), TextInput(attrs=attrs))

you get something like this:

<input type="text" name="name_0"><input type="text" name="name_1">

Which is a bit ugly.

I would like to see something like one of these:

widgets = (TextInput(attrs=attrs), TextInput(attrs=attrs))
names = ('date', 'time')

or

widgets = (('date', TextInput(attrs=attrs)), ('time', TextInput(attrs=attrs)))

These would render to something like this:

<input type="text" name="name_date"><input type="text" name="name_time">

[Jacob]

Yes, this is a good idea.

[Koen Biermans]

patch to allow passing names for widgets into MultiWidget

[Koen Biermans]

Added a small patch which allows passing names into MultiWidget as suggested.

[anonymous]

Please also add the ability to override the _ separator. Creating a multiwidget for autocompletion ends up making field_1 and field_2 in POST when I'd really like to be able to generate field and field_text, because keeping field will make sure using the widget doesn't break any tests that use POSTdata. There are workarounds, but I feel like it's not something so complicated it deserves its own hack.

[David Smith]

I've made improvements to this based on feedback on the PR. Please can this be reviewed again.

[Mariusz Felisiak <felisiak.mariusz@…>]

In 27746ab2:

Fixed #7664 -- Allowed customizing suffixes of MultiWidget.widgets' names.