I am working through how to use Django's forms (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/topics/forms/#more-on-fields) and I can't see a way to generate a form structure that is based on a defined Model. In Symfony, I remember I was able to get my form to automatically include all parameters of myModel (for example) even if any new attributes were later added to the model.
For example:
class myModel(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=50)
created=models.DateTimeField(null=False)
modified=models.DateTimeField(null=True)
myParameter= models.IntegerField(default=None)
// ... plus many more parameters
Rather than having to manually type corresponding rows into my class myModelForm(forms.Form):
, I'm looking/hoping for a 'catch all'.
The is_valid() method is used to perform validation for each field of the form, it is defined in Django Form class. It returns True if data is valid and place all data into a cleaned_data attribute.
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Using Form in a View In Django, the request object passed as parameter to your view has an attribute called "method" where the type of the request is set, and all data passed via POST can be accessed via the request. POST dictionary. The view will display the result of the login form posted through the loggedin.
from django.forms import ModelForm
class myModelForm(ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = myModel
fields = '__all__'
More details selecting-the-fields-to-use
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