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nelsonvarela
nelsonvarela

Reputation: 2370

Django: show external data in model based form

I have some external data (SOAP) that I want to show in a model-based-form.

The Model:

class UserProfile(User):
    profile_email = models.EmailField()
    company_name = models.CharField()
    coc_number = models.CharField()
    gender = models.CharField()
#etc

The Form:

 class UserDetailsForm(forms.ModelForm):
        class Meta:
            model = UserProfile

The data is a dictionary:

u = {}
u['profile_email'] = 'monkey'
u['company_name'] = 'tiger'
u['coc_number'] = 'some number'
u['gender'] = 'M'

My question is: What is the best way to put the data into the form? What I have so far:

form = UserDetailsForm(initial=u)

This results in a form with all the data. 1) But is this the right way to fill a model-bases-form with external data? 2) How can I set the right value in a select option (Choose country for instance)?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 250

Answers (1)

Rohan
Rohan

Reputation: 53326

  1. Yes, this is appropriate way.

  2. You need to set value for select/choices field in the dict similar to approach 1.

For example:

COUNTRY_CHOICES = (
    ('IN', 'India'),
    ('US', 'USA'),
    )
    ....
    #model field 
    country = models.CharField(choices=COUNTRY_CHOICES)

# then set it in dict as
u = {}
u['country'] = 'IN'
u['profile_email'] = 'monkey'
u['company_name'] = 'tiger'
u['coc_number'] = 'some number'
u['gender'] = 'M'
...

Upvotes: 1

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