CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pythondjango
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penguio

Reputation: 133

Returning multiple values independently from django model for modelchoicefield

I have a model called group and another called group membership. What I'm trying to do is return a seperate string, for one of my fields in my form. It displays correctly in the front end but when writing to the database it's all in one string. All im trying to do is get the group_name and cut out the rest of the string when writing to the database. I'm aiming for a way to return more then one value, because i need to grab company and department later on from that same model.

My Model

# Group #
#########
class Group(models.Model):
    created_by = models.ForeignKey('auth.User', related_name='group_created_by')
    id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True)
    company = models.ForeignKey(Company)
    department = models.ForeignKey(Department)
    group_name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    role = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    status = models.CharField(max_length=8)
    created_date = models.DateTimeField(default=timezone.now)
    modified_date = models.DateTimeField(blank=True, null=True)
    modified_by = models.ForeignKey('auth.User',
            related_name='group_modified_by',
            blank=True, null=True)

    def create(self):
        self.save()

    def __str__(self):
        return '{}{}{}'.format(self.company, self.department, self.group_name)

My Form

# Group Name #
##############
class GroupNameModelChoiceField(ModelChoiceField):
    def label_from_instance(self, obj):
        return '{}'.format(obj.group_name)


# Group Membership #
####################
class GroupMembershipForm(forms.ModelForm):
    options = (('Enabled', 'Enabled',), ('Disabled', 'Disabled'))
    member_id = forms.CharField(
            widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'class': 'form-control'})
            )
    company = forms.ModelChoiceField(
            queryset=Company.objects.filter(status='Enabled'),
            widget=forms.Select(attrs={'class': 'form-control'}),
            empty_label=''
            )
    department = forms.ModelChoiceField(
            queryset=Department.objects.filter(status='Enabled'),
            widget=forms.Select(attrs={'class': 'form-control'}),
            empty_label=''
            )
    group_name = GroupNameModelChoiceField(
            queryset=Group.objects.filter(status='Enabled'),
            widget=forms.Select(attrs={'class': 'form-control'}),
            empty_label=''
            )
    user_id = forms.ModelChoiceField(
            queryset=Person.objects.filter(status='Enabled'),
            widget=forms.Select(attrs={'class': 'form-control'}),
            empty_label=''
            )
    full_name = forms.CharField(
            widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'class': 'form-control'}),
            )
    status = forms.CharField(
            widget=forms.Select(
                attrs={'class': 'form-control'},
                choices=options
                )
            )

    class Meta:
        model = GroupMembership
        fields = ('member_id', 'company', 'department', 'group_name',
                'user_id', 'full_name', 'status')

Upvotes: 0

Views: 5600

Answers (1)

Aditya
Aditya

Reputation: 630

# Group #
#########
class Group(models.Model):
    created_by = models.ForeignKey('auth.User', related_name='group_created_by')
    id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True)
    company = models.ForeignKey(Company)
    department = models.ForeignKey(Department)
    group_name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    role = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    status = models.CharField(max_length=8)
    created_date = models.DateTimeField(default=timezone.now)
    modified_date = models.DateTimeField(blank=True, null=True)
    modified_by = models.ForeignKey('auth.User',
            related_name='group_modified_by',
            blank=True, null=True)

    def create(self):
        self.save()

    # Please rename to something sensible
    @property
    def get_special_combination_value(self):
        return '{}{}{}'.format(self.company, self.department, self.group_name)

    def __str__(self):
        return self.group_name

To use the @property:

from <yourapp>.models import Group

obj = Group()
# following line will print the special string
obj.get_special_combination_value

The property value can also be used in django admin as:

class GroupAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_display = ('get_special_combination_value',)

admin.site.register(Group, GroupAdmin)

Upvotes: 3

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