I just learned django last January and I'm currently working on website to store and show lyrics. My problem is that in createview the fields are not sorted.
Here is my models.py:
class Singer(models.Model):
song_singer = models.CharField(max_length=200)
def __str__(self):
return self.song_singer
def get_absolute_url(self):
return reverse('singer_author')
class Lyrics(models.Model):
title = models.CharField(max_length=50)
singer = models.ForeignKey(Singer, on_delete=models.RESTRICT)
type = models.ForeignKey(Type, on_delete=models.RESTRICT)
lyrics = models.TextField()
Views.py:
class AddSongView(LoginRequiredMixin, CreateView):
model = Lyrics
fields = ['title', 'singer', 'type', 'lyrics']
Screenshot in the browser
As you can see in the attached screenshot, the choices from singer field is not sorted. How to sort those choices? Thank you!
The easiest way to do this is by defining a default ordering=… [Django-doc] on your Singer model, this will then order the items by name if you do not specify another ordering:
class Singer(models.Model):
# …
class Meta:
ordering = ['song_singer']
Best to use a ModelForm here. This also gives you the chance to modify your form even more:
from django import forms
class SongForm(forms.ModelForm):
singer = forms.ModelChoiceField(queryset=Singer.objects.all().order_by('song_singer'))
class Meta:
model = Lyrics
fields = ['title', 'singer', 'type', 'lyrics']
class AddSongView(LoginRequiredMixin, CreateView):
form_class = SongForm
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These are my models:
class Partner(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=200, verbose_name="Organisation name")
class ResearchActivity(models.Model):
title = models.CharField(max_length=200)
partner = models.ManyToManyField(ActivityPartner, blank=True)
I'd like, in the Django administration forms, to have a field in my Partner edit form representing the ResearchActivity linked to that Partner.
Can this be achieved by adding a field to my Partner model (say, naming it linked_partner) and then edit my admin.py like so:
#admin.register(ActivityPartner)
class ActivityPartnerAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
search_fields = ['academic',]
autocomplete_fields = ['partnership_type', 'relationship_type', 'academic_links']
def get_changeform_initial_data(self, request):
return {'live_contract': ResearchActivity.objects.all().filter(linked_partner__id=request.ResearchActivity.partner.id)}
?
I have just come across in the display() decorator, new from Django 3.2. With it, I can simply do:
#admin.register(ActivityPartner)
class ActivityPartnerAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
search_fields = ['academic',]
autocomplete_fields = ['partnership_type', 'relationship_type', 'academic_links',]
readonly_fields = ('get_ra',)
#admin.display(description='Live contract(s)')
def get_ra(self, obj):
return list(ResearchActivity.objects.filter(partner=obj.id))
to achieve what I want.
If I also wanted to edit those ManyToMany relations, I can use the inlines option:
class LiveContractsInline(admin.TabularInline):
model = ResearchActivity.partner.through
#admin.register(ActivityPartner)
class ActivityPartnerAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
inlines = [
LiveContractsInline,
]
what I want to achieve is user will submit 3 inputs in the form 1) name 2) dropdown to select technician, 3) multiselect dropdown to select multiple products. Once the user submit the details
it will generate one lead in database with value like name,foreignkey of selected technician and id of selected products in different table. I don't know how to achieve this below I have mentioned my approch to achieve what I want. Please let me know if the models need any changes and how I can write a view for the same.
models.py
class product(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=20)
class technician(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=20)
class lead(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=20)
technician = models.ForeignKey(technician,on_delete=models.SET_NULL,null=True) #only single selection
products = models.ManyToManyField(product) #user can select multiple product in dropdown
form.py
class leadForm(form.ModelForm):
products = forms.MultipleChoiceField(queryset=Product.objects.all())
technician = forms.CharField(max_length=30,choices=[(i.id,i.name) for i in Technician.objects.all().values('id','name')
class Meta:
model = lead
fields = ('name','technician')
You should use a ModelMultipleChoiceField [Django-doc] here. The But in fact you do not need to implement the models yourself. You can simply let the Django logic do the work for you.
In order to give a textual representation at the HTML end, you can override the __str__ functions of the models:
class Product(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=20)
def __str__(self):
return self.name
class Technician(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=20)
def __str__(self):
return self.name
class Lead(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=20)
technician = models.ForeignKey(Technician, on_delete=models.SET_NULL, null=True)
products = models.ManyToManyField(Product)
Then we can simply define our form with:
class LeadForm(form.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Lead
fields = '__all__'
Note: usually classes are written in PamelCase and thus start with an Uppercase.
You can here use a class-based CreateView [Django-doc] for example:
from django.views.generic.edit import CreateView
from app.models import Lead
from app.forms import LeafForm
class LeadCreateView(CreateView):
model = Lead
form_class = LeadForm
template_name = 'create_lead.html'
I'm serialzing a Product model and its comments. Here's my simple code:
class ProductSerializer(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer):
comment_set = CommentSerializer(many=True, read_only=True)
class Meta:
model = Product
fields = [
'title',
'comment_set'
]
class CommentSerializer(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer):
class Meta:
model = Comment
fields = [
'text',
]
class Comment(models.Model):
product = models.ForeignKey(Product, null=True, blank=True, db_index=True)
class Product(models.Model):
title = models.CharField(max_length=50)
...
Problem:
If the product has many comments. For example, 500 comments. All 500 of them got serialized.
How to limit the result to a number of my own choosing, like 100 comments?
I've done some research before posting this but only found questions about filtering.
Thank you.
Define a new method on the Product model that returns a query set with a limited number of comments.
Then pass that method as the source of the CommentSerializer inside your ProductSerializer.
class Product(models.Model):
title = models.CharField(max_length=50)
def less_comments(self):
return Comment.objects.all().filter(product=self).order_by("-id")[:100]
Then in the ProductSerializer:
class ProductSerializer(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer):
comment_set = CommentSerializer(many=True, read_only=True, source="less_comments")
PS: Wrote the codes from memory, didn't test them. But should work.
You can write custom ListSerializer and put in CommentSerializer, then create custom field in ProductSerializer, wich source based on default related name:
class LimitedListSerializer(serializers.ListSerializer):
def to_representation(self, data):
data = data.all()[:100]
return super(FilteredListSerializer, self).to_representation(data)
class CommentSerializer(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer):
class Meta:
list_serializer_class = LimitedListSerializer
model = Comment
fields = [
'text',]
class Product(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer):
related_comments = CommentSerializer(many=True, read_only=True, source='comment_set')
when you pass many=True, list serrializer will be called.
You'll want to work on the CommentSerializer's queryset to control which ones you keep.
You'll be able to do that by overriding get_queryset. For example, to filter them against the current user. Note that I took this example because it highlights how to use the request's context to filter against:
class CommentSerializer(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer):
def get_queryset(self):
user = self.context['request'].user
queryset = Comment.objects.filter(user=user)
return queryset
class Meta:
model = Comment
fields = [
'text',
]
I am trying to sort out a specific problem that involve "many2many" relationship using through specification.
I've already tried to use inline_factory but I was not able to sort out the problem.
I have these tables
class Person(models.Model):
id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True)
fullname = models.CharField(max_length=200)
nickname = models.CharField(max_length=45, blank=True)
class Meta:
db_table = 'people'
class Role(models.Model):
role = models.CharField(max_length=200)
class Meta:
verbose_name_plural = 'roles'
db_table = 'roles'
class Study(models.Model):
id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True)
title = models.CharField(max_length=255)
description = models.CharField(max_length=1000)
members = models.ManyToManyField(Person, through='Studies2People')
class Meta:
db_table = 'studies'
class Studies2People(models.Model):
person = models.ForeignKey(Person)
role = models.ForeignKey(Role)
study = models.ForeignKey(Study)
class Meta:
verbose_name_plural = 'studies2people'
db_table = 'studies2people'
unique_together = (('person', 'role', 'study'),)
#forms.py
from .models import Study, Person, Role, Studies2People
class RegisterStudyForm(ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Study
fields = '__all__'
#View.py
class StudyCreateView(CreateView):
template_name = 'managements/register_study.html'
model = Study
form_class = RegisterStudyForm
success_url = 'success/'
def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
self.object = None
form_class = self.get_form_class()
form = self.get_form(form_class)
return self.render_to_response(self.get_context_data(form=form))
The code above creates a form like:
Study.Title
Study.description
List of People
I want to create a form to fill in all fields that involve Studies2People Something like this:
Study.Title
Study.description
Combo(people.list)
Combo(Role.list)
Maybe I should start from Studies2People but I don't know how to show the "inline" forms involved.
Thanks in advance
C.
waiting someone that is able to explain with some examples the relationship m2m with through (model & view), I sorted out my problem in a different way.
I've created three forms.
1 Model Form (study)
2 Form (forms with ModelChoiceField(queryset=TableX.objects.all())
Created a classView to manage the get and post action.(validation form too)
In the post procedure I used "transaction" to avoid "fake" data.
I hope that someone will post an example with complex m2m relationships.
Regards
Cinzia
I have this models in Django
class Country(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=80)
class Person(models.Model):
first_name = models.CharField(max_length=100, db_index=True)
last_name = models.CharField(max_length=100, db_index=True)
country = models.ForeignKey(Country)
and this ModelForm
class PersonForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Person
when I use this form in a template, everything works fine, but the country list in the <select> appears disordered. How can I order it?
You can use the ordering property:
class Country(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=80)
class Meta:
ordering = ["name"]
If you set the ordering to the Country class, it shall display them as you want.
If you can't or don't want to use the ordering attribute in class Meta of model, you also can do this:
You need make a Form object, something like:
from django import forms
class PersonForm(forms.ModelForm):
country = forms.ModelChoiceField(queryset=Country.objects.all().order_by('name'))
class Meta:
model = Person
field types for formsmodels
There's 2 good answers here, but I wanted to retain help_text, blank, and other settings from the model without having to repeat them and also not change the default ordering on the model. Here's what I did:
class PersonForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Person
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
super(PersonForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
self.fields['country'].queryset = self.fields['country'].queryset.order_by('name')
Essentially I just updated the queryset on the automatically added field to order the way I wanted.
try adding this into class Meta, inside class Person:
ordering = ['country']
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/options/#ordering
In view.py
First: you create the form
form = YourForm(request.POST)
Later your set the query:
form.fields['country '].queryset = YourDBTable.objects.all().order_by('Your_Attr')