Re: CheckboxSelectMultiple uses different fieldnames

2006-11-30 Thread Ivan Sagalaev
Adrian Holovaty wrote: > Ah, you're talking about the *old* form system...django.newforms has a > way of dealing with this -- check out > CheckboxSelectMultiple.value_from_datadict(), which is automatically > called by Form.full_clean(). Ah... I was in fact just looking at HTML and just recalle

Re: CheckboxSelectMultiple uses different fieldnames

2006-11-30 Thread Adrian Holovaty
On 11/30/06, Adrian Holovaty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Instead of this it can look like this (note the value attribute which > > replaces default "on"): > > > > > >John > >Paul > > > > > > and a POST would be exactly as with without the need > > of `prepare`. > >

Re: CheckboxSelectMultiple uses different fieldnames

2006-11-30 Thread Adrian Holovaty
On 11/30/06, Ivan Sagalaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Currently using checboxes it looks like: > > >John >Paul > > > and a POST is: > > beatlesJ=on&beatlsP=on > > And then you should remeber to call manipulator.prepare(new_data) to > convert these names into a li

Re: CheckboxSelectMultiple uses different fieldnames

2006-11-30 Thread Ivan Sagalaev
Adrian Holovaty wrote: > How would CheckboxSelectMultiple work otherwise, and how is the > compatibility broken? Consider : John Paul If you select both items in a POST you'll get: beatles=John&beatles=Paul ... which you will then nicely get as request.POST.getl

Re: CheckboxSelectMultiple uses different fieldnames

2006-11-30 Thread Adrian Holovaty
On 11/30/06, Ivan Sagalaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > CheckboxSelectMultiple is in effect just an alternative representation > of . Ideally one would be able to just switch between > these widget types not having to touch any other code. However > CheckboxSelectMultiple uses different names for

CheckboxSelectMultiple uses different fieldnames

2006-11-30 Thread Ivan Sagalaev
Hi! I'm now 'having a look' at newforms upon Adrian's request. I noticed a thing I was long forgotten to file as a ticket. So may be it's a good time to fix it. CheckboxSelectMultiple is in effect just an alternative representation of . Ideally one would be able to just switch between these