#django

factory-boy to the rescue!

I'll give that a shot

also factory-boy maybe, but i think it's better for test data than for initial production data?

Yeah I think so too, I'm using pytest and already have factories set up for 'regular' test data

I believe factory_boy is for Django's unittest right?

Not really. It's generic object factory tool which has djang orm integration.

And it's not tied to unittests. Works with any testing framework.

ah probably nicer than my pytest factories in combination with mommy then

hey i am still struggling with creating forms without using bootstrap or the {{form}} variable

the forms work ...but i dont know how to code them so that i can loop over the fields in a form

and get the error messages displayed in the boxes

ie the form fields

at the moemnt in time. my forms work, but error messages show above the form fields after i submit the form which isnt ideal

any help will be greatly appreciated.

eb0t: `{% for field in form.visible_fields %} ... {{ field.errors }} .. {{ field }} .. {{ field.help_text }} {% endfor %}`

you can also use `{{ field.html_name }}` to retrieve the proper field name for your input..

ah ram0n, i know there is a major hole in my logic. but in my html form, one of the fields is a text area

and what's the problem with that?

so each of my fields has a label, and a text area

or a field and an input

but the form has to be submitted before i can check it for errors

so if i put values in each box in the form and then submit,

the form is then checked for is_valid, and if not a new form with errors is submitted, which i can itterate over

but what about the fields that were fine

they will not be repopulated on the form, i have to fill it all in again by hand

ok with a small form, do i need some logic in my view which somehow repopulates the working fields

with the vales that passed validation

as you can see im really a bit lost on these forms

ah, i will maybe {% for field in form.visible_fields %} ... {{ if field.errors }} .. {{ field }} .. {{ field.help_text }} {{else field }}{% endfor %}

soemthing like that

i will have a mess about, thanks for the pointers

ok ram0n seems to be working now.

do you think i could improve on this https://bpaste.net/show/a541fdcc90a1

eb0t, why don't you render fields always with that for loop

?

GinFuyou: when the form is initally sent as a GET request. if i used the for loop then because the fields are manually constructed, then i'm not sure it would work

if i removed the manual field declarations

what do you mean "manually constructed"

They are declared in form class?

Hello guys. I would like to check if a ManyToManyField is empty in a clean() of the class itself? How do i do it? When I try to access this variable, I get a "needs to have a value for field "id" before this many-to-many relationship can be used."

yes they are declared in the form class, but the main reason i have done it this way is that eventually i want to apply some css to the field boxes and the error messages

and if i use {{form}} variable to get the fields on the html form

i was finding it difficult to manipulate the css on the fields

this way i can use my own classes

you can set classes on the widget attrs instead of css

if you want classes on container elements, I'd suggest rendering fields through django-sniplates widgets

Fully manual rendering is double royal PITA ^__^"

ah .. now i have this kind of working, im going to try and implement the same thing with sniplates.

i have the documentation, just got to see how it does things, as it seems sniplates is going to be the final method

once i suss it out

sure, good luck

thanks

i was avoiding the forms and templates for forms, as i just knew it would be very confusing for me, but slowly getting a feel for it , from total disaster, currently at ...a bit of a disaster.

so thats progress

I totally hated dealing with forms when I started with django. Well... a while after that too >_<"

does anyone know any 1 to 1 private chat module which shows Online, offline, is typing etc

which i can use in my already existing project

zothix, it's not most trivial

as in?

i should write my own chat module ?

As in there are most likely such modules, but they may require django-channels or some other additional setup of your server

Rocklayth: if you have no id on an object (i.e. it's not saved), it can't be in a relationship

since django by default is not fitted by that kind of async communications

Rocklayth: what would be in the fk on the other end?

GinFuyou, what is the best aproach here, i need my web to have chat n all.

how should i proceed.

Django-channels is often mentioned along with chat I think, folks here would know a better advice for you

Just warned you it may not be ass easy ass pip install something

the last module i was working with used sockets n stuff

but it didnt work

and it didnt gave any error either

*as (sorry)

GinFuyou, xD yes i know that xD

ass seemed to fit better though

xD

Shouldn't have kept that danbooru tab opened #^_^#

xD