Customization

Customization is neccessary in django-modelqueryform in instances where the default FormField and filters are insufficient or not avilable for model fields that you want to expose to querying

Note

There are no defaults for Model fields that are represented as text and have no choices

You can customize three different aspects of django-modelqueryform Each of these aspects can be customized either by Model Field or Model Field type

  1. Form field builder
    • build_FIELD(model_field)
    • build_type_FIELDTYPE(model_field)
  2. Filter builder
    • filter_FIELD(field_name, values)
    • filter_type_FIELDTYPE(field_name, values)
  3. Pretty Print builder
    • print_FIELD(field_name, values)
    • print_type_FIELDTYPE(field_name, values)

Warning

For fields that have no default you must implement a field builder and a filter builder

For these examples we will use the following Model:

class MyModel(models.Model):
   first_name = models.CharField(max_length=15)
   last_name = models.CharField(max_length=15)

And the following ModelQueryForm:

class MyModelQueryForm(modelqueryform.ModelQueryForm):
    model = MyModel
    inclue = ['first_name','last_name']

Form Field Builder

This should return a form field object.

By Name:

def build_first_name(model_field):
   return CharField(label=model_field.verbose_name,
                    max_length=model_field.max_length,
                    required=False
   )

Note

If this is all we customize for the example MyModelQueryForm it will raise a NotImplementedError because last_name does not have a field builder

By Type:

def build_type_charfield(model_field):
   return CharField(label=model_field.verbose_name,
                    max_length=model_field.max_length,
                    required=False
   )

Note

No NotImplementedError because this covers the type for both first_name and last_name If there is a name based builder and a type based builder for a field the named builder takes precedence

Filter Builder

This should return a Q object.

By Name:

def filter_first_name(field_name, values):
   return Q(**{field_name + '__iexact': values})

By Type:

def filter_type_charfield(field_name, values):
   return Q(**{field_name + '__contains': values})

Pretty Print Builder

By Name:

def print_first_name(field_name, values):
   return "Matches %s" % values

By Type:

def print_type_charfield(field_name, values):
   return "Contains %s" % values