get an error while applying a widget to a field - django

Question

Here is my model
class RecipeIngredient(models.Model):
recipe = models.ForeignKey(Recipe)
ingredient = models.ForeignKey(Ingredient)
serving_size = models.ForeignKey(ServingSize)
quantity = models.IntegerField()
order = models.IntegerField()
created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add = True)
updated = models.DateTimeField(auto_now = True)
and my model form
class RecipeIngredientForm(forms.ModelForm):
recipe_ingredient = forms.CharField()
class Meta:
model = RecipeIngredient
widgets = {
'serving_size' : forms.Select(attrs={'class' : 'test'}),
'recipe_ingredient' : forms.TextInput(),
}
I get the following error when I navigate to the page
Unhandled exception in thread started by <function inner_run at 0x1010faf50>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/runserver.py", line 48, in inner_run
self.validate(display_num_errors=True)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 245, in validate
num_errors = get_validation_errors(s, app)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/core/management/validation.py", line 28, in get_validation_errors
for (app_name, error) in get_app_errors().items():
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/db/models/loading.py", line 146, in get_app_errors
self._populate()
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/db/models/loading.py", line 61, in _populate
self.load_app(app_name, True)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/db/models/loading.py", line 78, in load_app
models = import_module('.models', app_name)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/utils/importlib.py", line 35, in import_module
__import__(name)
File "/models.py", line 128, in <module>
RecipeIngredientFormSet = inlineformset_factory(Recipe, RecipeIngredient, extra=1, form=RecipeIngredientForm)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/forms/models.py", line 838, in inlineformset_factory
FormSet = modelformset_factory(model, **kwargs)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/forms/models.py", line 669, in modelformset_factory
formfield_callback=formfield_callback)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/forms/models.py", line 407, in modelform_factory
return ModelFormMetaclass(class_name, (form,), form_class_attrs)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/forms/models.py", line 220, in __new__
opts.exclude, opts.widgets, formfield_callback)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/forms/models.py", line 178, in fields_for_model
formfield = formfield_callback(f, **kwargs)
TypeError: <lambda>() got an unexpected keyword argument 'widget'
but if I remove this line from my RecipeIngredientForm the error goes away
'serving_size' : forms.Select(attrs={'class' : 'test'}),
Any ideas whatI did wrong?

Answer 1

Just don't add Select widget to this field, it's ModelChoiceField, and is rendered as select box anyway. If you put Select widget on ModelChoiceField, it won't render properly (will show unicode output in value rather than ID).
Also you don't need the first CharField unless you want a text input with auto-completion.
To show the input element with custom attributes, use {% field %} tag:
{% field myform.myselect class="XYZ" %}
renders it to
<select name="..." class="XYZ">...
I think you'll agree that it's a bad idea to customize classes and templates inside forms or models. It makes it impossible to debug templates.

Answer 2

I ran into a similar problem.
I specified a custom "form" kwarg in a modelformset_factory constructor. This would consistently fail with the error you describe while that form class had custom widgets specified in its meta class:
class MyForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = MyModel
widgets = {
'myField' : forms.fields.TextInput(attrs={'readonly':'readonly'}),
}
MyFormFactory = modelformset_factory(MyModel,form=MyForm)
Changing the form class to specify custom widgets in the init method seemed to solve this:
class MyForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = MyModel
def __init__(self,*args,**kwargs):
self.fields['myField'].widget = forms.fields.TextInput(attrs={'readonly':'readonly'})