Re: About ModelForms implicitness and ways to wrap ModelForms

2008-04-04 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 17:06 -0700, msaelices wrote: > This mail maybe can be splitted in two, but I write only one because > both are related. > > Ok, ModelForms is a very very wonderful thing, but I want to talk > about (maybe) excessive implicitness. > > Look at this form declaration: > > cl

Re: About ModelForms implicitness and ways to wrap ModelForms

2008-04-03 Thread msaelices
On 4 abr, 00:28, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What about replacing the idea of a ModelForm with a ModelField? Then > for shorter > forms you could list all the fields explicitly, without having to > recode all the > default field definitions. I think should be hard to implemen

Re: About ModelForms implicitness and ways to wrap ModelForms

2008-04-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What about replacing the idea of a ModelForm with a ModelField? Then for shorter forms you could list all the fields explicitly, without having to recode all the default field definitions. e.g.: class MyForm(forms.Form): foo = forms.ModelField(SomeModel, 'foo', widget=forms.Textarea) bar

Re: About ModelForms implicitness and ways to wrap ModelForms

2008-04-02 Thread James Bennett
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 7:06 PM, msaelices <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, what do you see? You first think again in a form with two fields, > however maybe is a form with five fields. What is happening? You > explicity define two fields, and the real action is a _redefinition_ > of two field

About ModelForms implicitness and ways to wrap ModelForms

2008-04-02 Thread msaelices
This mail maybe can be splitted in two, but I write only one because both are related. Ok, ModelForms is a very very wonderful thing, but I want to talk about (maybe) excessive implicitness. Look at this form declaration: class AuthorForm(forms.Form): name = myforms.MyCharField(max_length=1