Django: Make certain fields in a ModelForm required=False - django

Question

How do I make certain fields in a ModelForm required=False?
If I have:
class ThatForm(ModelForm):
class Meta:
widgets = {"text": Textarea(required=False)}
Or if I have:
class ThatForm(ModelForm):
text = Textarea(required=False)
Django returns:
__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'required'

Answer 1

following from comments. Probably yes:
class ThatForm(ModelForm):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
# first call parent's constructor
super(ThatForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
# there's a `fields` property now
self.fields['desired_field_name'].required = False

Answer 2

you ought to add blank=True to the corresponding model
The documentation says
If the model field has blank=True, then required is set to False on the form field. Otherwise, required=True.
Also see the documentation for blank itself.

Answer 3

When we need to set required option on a bunch of fields we can:
class ThatForm(forms.ModelForm):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
for field in self.Meta.required:
self.fields[field].required = True
class Meta:
model = User
fields = (
'email',
'first_name',
'last_name',
'address',
'postcode',
'city',
'state',
'country',
'company',
'tax_id',
'website',
'service_notifications',
)
required = (
'email',
'first_name',
'last_name',
'address',
'postcode',
'city',
'country',
)

Answer 4

the following may be suitable
class ThatForm(ModelForm):
text = forms.CharField(required=False, widget=forms.Textarea)

Answer 5

You could try this:
class ThatForm(ModelForm):
class Meta:
requireds =
{
'text':False,
}
requireds must be under Meta.