I'm using Simple Form, and I have a few fields that are not associated with my model. I found using this fake field option to be a good solution:
https://github.com/plataformatec/simple_form/wiki/Create-a-fake-input-that-does-NOT-read-attributes
I thought this was cleaner than adding an attr_accessor value for my fields, and it works great for text input fields. I'm hoping to accomplish the same thing with a Select Field.
I found this thread, but I couldn't find anything else:
https://github.com/plataformatec/simple_form/issues/747
Has anyone found a similar option for a Fake Select Input? Thanks!
Assuming you'll use that "fake select" for UI purposes (probably as a mean to modify the form fields to present the user using Javascript?) and you don't want to deal with the value in the controller, you could just use select_tag with any field name, instead of the simple_form f.input. The value will be sent to the server, but it will be outside the model params, so you can just ignore it in the controller.
If I misunderstood your question, please clarify.
If your just trying to get the name='whatever' instead of having name='model[whatever]' I've found it easiest to just specify the name attribute in input_html { name: 'whatever', id: 'whatever' } hash which over rides the default model[attribute].
Otherwise you could create a fake_select_input.rb which would be similar to fake_input.rb but obviously use a select_tag instead and do something like as: :fake_select
Related
So I have predefined database structure like this:
User:
id
User_1:
user_=ForeignKey(User)
User_2:
user_1=ForeignKey(User_1)
Something:
owner=ForeignKey(User_2)
users=ManyToMany(User_2)
Well, I need to fill the table Something. Short story is that from front end I receive the ids of model User but to store I need User_2. One way I see right now is to write custom create method is serializer and do all manually.
Are there other ways to solve it?
And is it correct to use serializers.PrimaryKeyRelatedField to deal with ForeignKey when payload has next format?
{
"user": 1
}
I have a Rails 4.2 application with mongoid in which I'm importing csv files with test results. I can't define all fields in the model because they change from test to test and theres always around 700 of them. I use Dynamic Attributes and importing and displaying works fine.
I'm trying to use attribute_names method to get all attribute names but all I get is those defined in the model. If I don't define anything in the model it comes back with "_id" only. attributes method on the other hand can see attributes in the actual document on the other hand.
>> #results.first.attributes.count
=> 763
>> #results.first.attribute_names
=> ["_id"]
I also tried fields.keys, same problem
>> #results.first.fields.keys
=> ["_id"]
My model at the moment looks like this
class Result
include Mongoid::Document
include Mongoid::Attributes::Dynamic
def self.import(file)
CSV.foreach(file.path, headers: true) do |row|
Result.create! row.to_hash
end
end
end
Can somebody explain how to make it work?
Any help greatly appreciated.
This part is not very clear in the documentation.
and this answer doesn't address how you can make your case works ( I really don't know)... but it has one monkey patch at the end...
all I know is why this case not working...
as the documentation states
When dealing with dynamic attributes the following rules apply:
If the attribute exists in the document, Mongoid will provide you with your standard getter and setter methods.
For example, consider a person who has an attribute of "gender" set on the document:
# Set the person's gender to male.
person[:gender] = "Male"
person.gender = "Male"
# Get the person's gender.
person.gender
this is not your case... cause as it appears you are not defining any attributes in your model...
what applies in your case (from the code you showed and problem you described)
If the attribute does not already exist on the document,
Mongoid will not provide you with the getters and setters and will enforce normal method_missing behavior.
In this case you must use the other provided accessor methods: ([] and []=) or (read_attribute and write_attribute).
# Raise a NoMethodError if value isn't set.
person.gender
person.gender = "Male"
# Retrieve a dynamic field safely.
person[:gender]
person.read_attribute(:gender)
# Write a dynamic field safely.
person[:gender] = "Male"
person.write_attribute(:gender, "Male")
as you can see... there is no way for mongoid to add the setter and getter methods in runtime...
Monkey Patch
you could add a field (maybe string, array, hash, whatever suites you) to the document (attribute exists in the document)
on populating the document from the CSV row.. just save what are the fields of the CSV in that field... (hold the CSV keys in it)
use your predefined field (that holds the keys) instead of using .keys.
code example in your case.
class Result
include Mongoid::Document
include Mongoid::Attributes::Dynamic
field :the_field_that_holds_the_keys, type: Array
# ...
end
and in your controller:
#results.first.some_attribute
#=> method missing error
#results.first[:some_attribute]
#=> some_value
#results.first.the_field_that_holds_the_keys
#=> [:some_attribute, :some_other_attribute, :yada]
I was wondering what is the correct approach,
Do I create HiddenInput fields in my ModelForm and from the
View I pass in the primaryKey for the models I am about to edit into
the hiddenInput fields and then grab those hiddenInput fields from
the AJAX script to use it like this?
item.load(
"/bookmark/save/" + hidden_input_field_1,
null,
function () {
$("#save-form").submit(bookmark_save);
}
);
Or is there is some more clever way of doing it and I have no idea?
Thanks
It depends upon how you want to implement.
The basic idea is to edit 1. you need to get the existing instance, 2. Save provided information into this object.
For #1 you can do it multiple ways, like passing ID or any other primary key like attribute in url like http://myserver/edit_object/1 , Or pass ID as hidden input then you have to do it through templates.
For #2, I think you would already know this. Do something like
inst = MyModel.objects.get(id=input_id) # input_id taken as per #1
myform = MyForm(request.POST, instance=inst)
if myform.is_valid():
saved_inst = myform.save()
I just asked in the django IRC room and it says:
since js isn't processed by the django template engine, this is not
possible.
Hence the id or the object passed in from django view can't be accessed within AJAX script.
I have the following model:
class mark(models.Model):
title=models.CharField(max_length=35)
url=models.URLField(max_length=200)
user=models.ManyToManyField(User,blank=True)
and then I use a form to save some data to the db. My code inside the view that saves the data is:
new_mark= mark(url=request.POST['url'],
title=request.POST['title'],
user=request.user)
new_mark.save()
Of course I have all the data validation, login required validation, etc.
When I run this it throws me an unexpected
'user' is an invalid keyword argument for this function
on theuser=request.user) line. Any ideas what might be wrong?
Please provide the whole traceback and make sure your view has no function named "mark" etc (You probably also want to change mark to Mark to follow Python and Django style guides.) test via print type(mark) before the "new_mark = …" line.
Also I am not 100% sure if a ManyToMany field allows settings data like that, eg try:
new_mark= mark(url=request.POST['url'],
title=request.POST['title'])
new_mark.user.add(request.user)
new_mark.save()
And since it's an m2m field you probably want to rename the field to users.
Given the following models (cut down for understanding):
class Venue(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(unique=True)
class Band(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(unique=True)
class Event(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=50, unique=True)
bands = models.ManyToManyField(Band)
venue = models.ForeignKey(Venue)
start = models.DateField()
end = models.DateField()
The admin area works great for what I'm doing, but I'd like to open the site up a bit so that certain users can add new Events. For the public portions, I have several "administrative" fields on these models that I don't want the public to see (which is easy enough to fix).
My specific problem, though, is changing the display of the ManyToMany selections when creating a new Event. Because the number of Bands possible to list for an event should not be sent along as a multiselect box, I'd like to use an AutoComplete that handles multiples (like the Tags box, here on StackOverflow!).
I have this part working, and it correctly fills in a hidden input with the Band.id's separated by commas for a value. However, I can't understand how to put together letting Django do the validation using the ModelForms, and somehow also validating the 'Bands' selection.
Ideally, I want to auto-complete like the tags here on StackOverflow, and send along the selected Bands ID's in some kind of Delimited string - all while letting Django validate that the bands passed exist, etc, as if I left the annoying multi-select list in place.
Do I have to create my own Auto-Complete Field type for a form or model, and use that? Is there something else I'm overlooking?
I have seen some existing AutoComplete widgets, but I'd really-really-really like to use my own Autocomplete code, since it's already set up, and some of them look a bit convoluted.
There was a lot more text/explanation here, but I cut back because I'm avoiding Wall Of Text. If I left important stuff out, let me know.
It's a little hard to say without knowing exactly what your autocomplete code is doing, but as long as it is sending the ids of the bands like they would be sent with the <select>, the ModelForm should validate them as usual.
Basically, your POST string should look like:
name=FooBar2009&bands=1&bands=3&bands=4&venue=7&start=...
The easiest way to do this might be to use Javascript to add (and remove) a hidden input field for each band entered with the name band and the id of the band as the value. Then, when the user submits the form, the browser will take care of posting the right stuff, and the ModelForm will validate it.
Using the annointed jquery autocomplete plugin,
On the client-side I have something like this:
jQuery("#id_tags").autocomplete('/tagging_utils/autocomplete/tasks/task/', {
max: 10,
highlight: false,
multiple: true,
multipleSeparator: " ",
scroll: true,
scrollHeight: 300,
matchContains: true,
autoFill: true,
});
So, I have a view that returns when I type in a:
http://skyl.org/tagging_utils/autocomplete/tasks/task/?q=a&limit=10×tamp=1259652876009
You can see the view that serves that here:
http://github.com/skyl/skyl.org/blob/master/apps/tagging_utils/views.py
Now, it's going to be a little tricky .. you might except the POST, then in the clean method of the field try to .get() based on the strings and raise a form validation error if you can't get it ... right, name = ... unique=True .. so something like (off the top of my head) ... :
def clean_bands(self):
return Band.objects.filter( name__in = self.cleaned_data['bands'].split(' ') )
You could also check each string and raise a form error if there are no bands by that name .. not sure that the clean method should return a qs. Let me know if this helps and you want me to keep going/clarify.