Feature idea: forms signals

2017-03-06 Thread David Seddon
Hi all, One thing I've always found challenging with Django is to adjust the functionality of forms from other apps. An example might be to add an extra field to a login form provided by a third party module. What I end up doing is often overriding the urlconf, view and form class. Or, worse

Re: Feature idea: forms signals

2017-03-07 Thread David Seddon
I totally agree that signals are open to misuse, and I take your points. Inexperienced developers often seem to use them just because they're there, rather than to encapsulate their apps and avoid circular dependencies. The Django signals documentation could probably do with a bit more guidan

Re: Feature idea: forms signals

2017-03-10 Thread David Seddon
17 18:18:26 Melvyn Sopacua wrote: > > > On Monday 06 March 2017 10:10:41 David Seddon wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > One thing I've always found challenging with Django is to adjust the > > > > functionality of forms from othe

Re: Feature idea: forms signals

2017-03-14 Thread David Seddon
lude them for completeness. Would value any comments! On Monday, 6 March 2017 19:08:29 UTC, David Seddon wrote: > > Hi all, > > One thing I've always found challenging with Django is to adjust the > functionality of forms from other apps. An example might be to add an &g

Re: Opportunity to contribute in Django

2017-03-14 Thread David Seddon
Hi Jainesh, Have a look at this page which should give you an idea about where to start: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/intro/contributing/#finding-your-first-real-ticket On Monday, 13 March 2017 13:52:34 UTC, Jainesh Patel wrote: > > Hello, > > I am a final year CSE student from PICT,

Re: Feature idea: forms signals

2017-04-17 Thread David Seddon
Hi JP, That's a good point, sorry I didn't make it clear. The fork is installed from within the requirements file but you can also see it here, on the ticket_27923 branch: https://github.com/seddonym/django/tree/ticket_27923 I've updated the README to help. I'd be interested to hear if anyone

Re: #26369: default formfield callback override

2017-04-17 Thread David Seddon
Hi Jamesie, I recently proposed adding a post_init signal for forms (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/django-developers/SviNiWy3Bjc). Here's an example of how you might adjust the forms: https://github.com/seddonym/formsignals/blob/master/formsignals/priority/receivers.py If such a sig