Django required field in model form

Question

I have a form where a couple of fields are coming out as required when I don't want them too. Here is the form from models.py

class CircuitForm(ModelForm):     class Meta:         model = Circuit         exclude = ('lastPaged',)     def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):         super(CircuitForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)         self.fields['begin'].widget = widgets.AdminSplitDateTime()         self.fields['end'].widget = widgets.AdminSplitDateTime() 

In the actual Circuit model, the fields are defined like this:

begin = models.DateTimeField('Start Time', null=True, blank=True) end = models.DateTimeField('Stop Time', null=True, blank=True) 

My views.py for this is here:

def addCircuitForm(request):     if request.method == 'POST':         form = CircuitForm(request.POST)         if form.is_valid():             form.save()             return HttpResponseRedirect('/sla/all')     form = CircuitForm()         return render_to_response('sla/add.html', {'form': form}) 

What can I do so that the two fields aren't required?

Answer 1

If you don't want to modify blank setting for your fields inside models (doing so will break normal validation in admin site), you can do the following in your Form class:

def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):     super(CircuitForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)      for key in self.fields:         self.fields[key].required = False  

The redefined constructor won't harm any functionality.