#35748: Document that Field.formfield() may return None
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Reporter: Adam Johnson | Type:
| Cleanup/optimization
Status: new | Component: Database
| layer (models, ORM)
Version: dev | Severity: Normal
Keywords: | Triage Stage:
| Unreviewed
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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The
[https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/fields/#django.db.models.Field.formfield
current documentation] only states that a form field should be returned.
`None` is also an allowed return value,
[https://github.com/django/django/blob/cdbd31960e0cf41063b3efac97292ee0ccc262bb/django/db/models/fields/__init__.py#L2828-L2829
as used by AutoFieldMixin], used to
[https://github.com/django/django/blob/cdbd31960e0cf41063b3efac97292ee0ccc262bb/django/forms/models.py#L236-L248
ignore the field] when constructing the model form.
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