Need better support for dynamic forms

[Jonathan.Oomph@…]

When creating a static form, the Forms support in django works great. However, when trying to create a dynamic form (i.e. a survey is a good example), it seems very difficult. It would be nice if I could create a Form instance and add fields at runtime. Of course, validations and handling the postback would need to work also for dynamic forms. Thanks!

[Brian Rosner]

Are you actually proposing a specific fix? This is already possible. Django's forms are just Python classes. You can easily create runtime classes using Python's type function. I would recommend reading up on how Python works in that respect.

type("MyForm", (forms.Form,), {"base_fields": { ... },})

base_fields is where your runtime fields are created. I am marking this as invalid. I would consider proposing an actual fix or improvement to django-developers before opening a drive by ticket. Thanks :)

[Brian Rosner]

Oh, I just realized my code above as a bug. It should be forms.BaseForm and not forms.Form :)

[Jonathan.Oomph@…]

Thanks for the comment. I wasn't sure the best place to share my opinion, so I apologize if I posted it in the wrong place. I am not familiar with dynamic classes in Python, but that sounds interesting. In my research of django, I found many forums with django users that were confused about dynamic forms. Some claimed it was impossible. So that's why I decided to contact the "experts". =) Thanks again.