フォームセット (Formset)¶
-
class
BaseFormSet
¶
A formset is a layer of abstraction to work with multiple forms on the same page. It can be best compared to a data grid. Let's say you have the following form:
>>> from django import forms
>>> class ArticleForm(forms.Form):
... title = forms.CharField()
... pub_date = forms.DateField()
...
You might want to allow the user to create several articles at once. To create
a formset out of an ArticleForm
you would do:
>>> from django.forms import formset_factory
>>> ArticleFormSet = formset_factory(ArticleForm)
You now have created a formset class named ArticleFormSet
.
Instantiating the formset gives you the ability to iterate over the forms
in the formset and display them as you would with a regular form:
>>> formset = ArticleFormSet()
>>> for form in formset:
... print(form.as_table())
...
<tr><th><label for="id_form-0-title">Title:</label></th><td><input type="text" name="form-0-title" id="id_form-0-title"></td></tr>
<tr><th><label for="id_form-0-pub_date">Pub date:</label></th><td><input type="text" name="form-0-pub_date" id="id_form-0-pub_date"></td></tr>
As you can see it only displayed one empty form. The number of empty forms
that is displayed is controlled by the extra
parameter. By default,
formset_factory()
defines one extra form; the
following example will create a formset class to display two blank forms:
>>> ArticleFormSet = formset_factory(ArticleForm, extra=2)
Iterating over a formset will render the forms in the order they were
created. You can change this order by providing an alternate implementation for
the __iter__()
method.
フォームセットでは、インデックスをつけて、一致するフォームを返すこともできます。__iter__
をオーバーライドした場合、動作を一貫させるため __getitem__
もオーバーライドする必要があります。
フォームセットで初期データを指定する¶
Initial data is what drives the main usability of a formset. As shown above you can define the number of extra forms. What this means is that you are telling the formset how many additional forms to show in addition to the number of forms it generates from the initial data. Let's take a look at an example:
>>> import datetime
>>> from django.forms import formset_factory
>>> from myapp.forms import ArticleForm
>>> ArticleFormSet = formset_factory(ArticleForm, extra=2)
>>> formset = ArticleFormSet(
... initial=[
... {
... "title": "Django is now open source",
... "pub_date": datetime.date.today(),
... }
... ]
... )
>>> for form in formset:
... print(form.as_table())
...
<tr><th><label for="id_form-0-title">Title:</label></th><td><input type="text" name="form-0-title" value="Django is now open source" id="id_form-0-title"></td></tr>
<tr><th><label for="id_form-0-pub_date">Pub date:</label></th><td><input type="text" name="form-0-pub_date" value="2008-05-12" id="id_form-0-pub_date"></td></tr>
<tr><th><label for="id_form-1-title">Title:</label></th><td><input type="text" name="form-1-title" id="id_form-1-title"></td></tr>
<tr><th><label for="id_form-1-pub_date">Pub date:</label></th><td><input type="text" name="form-1-pub_date" id="id_form-1-pub_date"></td></tr>
<tr><th><label for="id_form-2-title">Title:</label></th><td><input type="text" name="form-2-title" id="id_form-2-title"></td></tr>
<tr><th><label for="id_form-2-pub_date">Pub date:</label></th><td><input type="text" name="form-2-pub_date" id="id_form-2-pub_date"></td></tr>
上の例では、今度は 3 つのフォームが表示されました。初期データとして渡された 1 つと、2 つの追加フォームです。初期データとして、辞書のリストを渡していることにも注意してください。
フォームセットを描画するために initial
を使う場合、フォームセットの送信を処理するときに同じ initial
を渡して、どのフォームがユーザによって変更されたかをフォームセットが検出できるようにしてください。例えば、ArticleFormSet(request.POST, initial=[...])
のようになるでしょう。
フォームの最大表示数を制限する¶
The max_num
parameter to formset_factory()
gives you the ability to limit the number of forms the formset will display:
>>> from django.forms import formset_factory
>>> from myapp.forms import ArticleForm
>>> ArticleFormSet = formset_factory(ArticleForm, extra=2, max_num=1)
>>> formset = ArticleFormSet()
>>> for form in formset:
... print(form.as_table())
...
<tr><th><label for="id_form-0-title">Title:</label></th><td><input type="text" name="form-0-title" id="id_form-0-title"></td></tr>
<tr><th><label for="id_form-0-pub_date">Pub date:</label></th><td><input type="text" name="form-0-pub_date" id="id_form-0-pub_date"></td></tr>
もし、max_num
の値が初期データ内に存在するオブジェクトの合計より大きい場合、 extra
を上限として空のフォームがフォームセットに追加されます。 フォームの合計の長さは max_num
を超えることはできません。例えば、extra=2
と max_num=2
、そしてフォームセットが 1 つの initial
項目で初期化される場合、この初期項目のフォームと 1 つの空のフォームが表示されます。
初期データ内の項目数が max_num
を超える場合、max_num
の値に関わらず全ての初期データのフォームが表示され、追加フォームは 1 つも表示されません。例えば、extra=3
と max_num=1
、そしてフォームセットが 2 つの初期項目で初期化される場合、2 つのフォームが初期データとともに表示されます。
max_num
の値が None
(デフォルト) だった場合、表示されるフォームの上限は大きな数になります (1000)。この数は、実際には制限がないと見なせるでしょう。
デフォルトでは、max_num
はいくつのフォームが表示されるかだけに影響し、バリデーションには影響しません。validate_max=True
が formset_factory()
に渡される場合は、max_num
はバリデーションに影響します。validate_max をご覧ください。
Limiting the maximum number of instantiated forms¶
The absolute_max
parameter to formset_factory()
allows limiting the
number of forms that can be instantiated when supplying POST
data. This
protects against memory exhaustion attacks using forged POST
requests:
>>> from django.forms.formsets import formset_factory
>>> from myapp.forms import ArticleForm
>>> ArticleFormSet = formset_factory(ArticleForm, absolute_max=1500)
>>> data = {
... "form-TOTAL_FORMS": "1501",
... "form-INITIAL_FORMS": "0",
... }
>>> formset = ArticleFormSet(data)
>>> len(formset.forms)
1500
>>> formset.is_valid()
False
>>> formset.non_form_errors()
['Please submit at most 1000 forms.']
When absolute_max
is None
, it defaults to max_num + 1000
. (If
max_num
is None
, it defaults to 2000
).
If absolute_max
is less than max_num
, a ValueError
will be raised.
フォームセットのバリデーション¶
Validation with a formset is almost identical to a regular Form
. There is
an is_valid
method on the formset to provide a convenient way to validate
all forms in the formset:
>>> from django.forms import formset_factory
>>> from myapp.forms import ArticleForm
>>> ArticleFormSet = formset_factory(ArticleForm)
>>> data = {
... "form-TOTAL_FORMS": "1",
... "form-INITIAL_FORMS": "0",
... }
>>> formset = ArticleFormSet(data)
>>> formset.is_valid()
True
We passed in no data to the formset which is resulting in a valid form. The formset is smart enough to ignore extra forms that were not changed. If we provide an invalid article:
>>> data = {
... "form-TOTAL_FORMS": "2",
... "form-INITIAL_FORMS": "0",
... "form-0-title": "Test",
... "form-0-pub_date": "1904-06-16",
... "form-1-title": "Test",
... "form-1-pub_date": "", # <-- this date is missing but required
... }
>>> formset = ArticleFormSet(data)
>>> formset.is_valid()
False
>>> formset.errors
[{}, {'pub_date': ['This field is required.']}]
見て分かるように、 formset.errors
はリストで、 そのエントリーはフォームセット内のフォームと一致します。 バリデーションは、2 つのフォームそれぞれに働いて、2 つ目の項目にエラーメッセージが表示されています。
通常の Form
を使うときとまったく同じように、フォームセットのフォーム内のそれぞれのフィールドは、ブラウザのバリデーションのための maxlength
のような HTML 属性を含むことができます。ただし、フォームセットのフォームフィールドは、required
属性を含みません。これは、フォームを追加したり削除するときにバリデーションが正しく働かない可能性があるためです。
-
BaseFormSet.
total_error_count
()¶
To check how many errors there are in the formset, we can use the
total_error_count
method:
>>> # Using the previous example
>>> formset.errors
[{}, {'pub_date': ['This field is required.']}]
>>> len(formset.errors)
2
>>> formset.total_error_count()
1
We can also check if form data differs from the initial data (i.e. the form was sent without any data):
>>> data = {
... "form-TOTAL_FORMS": "1",
... "form-INITIAL_FORMS": "0",
... "form-0-title": "",
... "form-0-pub_date": "",
... }
>>> formset = ArticleFormSet(data)
>>> formset.has_changed()
False
ManagementForm
を理解する¶
You may have noticed the additional data (form-TOTAL_FORMS
,
form-INITIAL_FORMS
) that was required in the formset's data above. This
data is required for the ManagementForm
. This form is used by the formset
to manage the collection of forms contained in the formset. If you don't
provide this management data, the formset will be invalid:
>>> data = {
... "form-0-title": "Test",
... "form-0-pub_date": "",
... }
>>> formset = ArticleFormSet(data)
>>> formset.is_valid()
False
これは、表示されているフォームインスタンスの数を追跡するために使用されます。 JavaScriptを使用して新しいフォームを追加する場合は、フォームのカウントフィールドもインクリメントする必要があります。 一方、既存のオブジェクトの削除を許可するためにJavaScriptを使用している場合は、POST
データに form-#-DELETE
を含めることで、削除対象のマークが適切に削除されていることを確認する必要があります。 すべてのフォームがそれにかかわらず POST
データに存在することが期待されます。
ManagementFormは、フォームセット自体の属性として使用できます。 テンプレートでフォームセットをレンダリングするときは、{{ my_formset.management_form }}
(my_formsetは適切な名前に置き換えます)をレンダリングすることで、すべての管理データを含めることができます。
注釈
As well as the form-TOTAL_FORMS
and form-INITIAL_FORMS
fields shown
in the examples here, the management form also includes
form-MIN_NUM_FORMS
and form-MAX_NUM_FORMS
fields. They are output
with the rest of the management form, but only for the convenience of
client-side code. These fields are not required and so are not shown in
the example POST
data.
total_form_count
と initial_form_count
¶
BaseFormSet
には、ManagementForm
、total_form_count
、initial_form_count
と密接に関わる 2 つのメソッドがあります。
total_form_count
は、対象のフィールドセット内のフォームの合計数を返します。initial_form_count
は、記入前のフォームセット内のフォームの数を返し、またいくつのフォームが必須なのかを決めるためにも使われます。通常、これらのメソッドをオーバーライドする必要はありませんが、もし必要な場合はメソッドの動作を理解してからオーバーライドしてください。
empty_form
¶
BaseFormSet
には追加の属性 empty_form
があり、__prefix__
というプレフィックスとともにフォームのインスタンスを返します。これにより、JavaScript で動的にフォームを操作することが容易となります。
error_messages
¶
The error_messages
argument lets you override the default messages that the
formset will raise. Pass in a dictionary with keys matching the error messages
you want to override. Error message keys include 'too_few_forms'
,
'too_many_forms'
, and 'missing_management_form'
. The
'too_few_forms'
and 'too_many_forms'
error messages may contain
%(num)d
, which will be replaced with min_num
and max_num
,
respectively.
For example, here is the default error message when the management form is missing:
>>> formset = ArticleFormSet({})
>>> formset.is_valid()
False
>>> formset.non_form_errors()
['ManagementForm data is missing or has been tampered with. Missing fields: form-TOTAL_FORMS, form-INITIAL_FORMS. You may need to file a bug report if the issue persists.']
And here is a custom error message:
>>> formset = ArticleFormSet(
... {}, error_messages={"missing_management_form": "Sorry, something went wrong."}
... )
>>> formset.is_valid()
False
>>> formset.non_form_errors()
['Sorry, something went wrong.']
The 'too_few_forms'
and 'too_many_forms'
keys were added.
カスタムフォームセットのバリデーション¶
A formset has a clean
method similar to the one on a Form
class. This
is where you define your own validation that works at the formset level:
>>> from django.core.exceptions import ValidationError
>>> from django.forms import BaseFormSet
>>> from django.forms import formset_factory
>>> from myapp.forms import ArticleForm
>>> class BaseArticleFormSet(BaseFormSet):
... def clean(self):
... """Checks that no two articles have the same title."""
... if any(self.errors):
... # Don't bother validating the formset unless each form is valid on its own
... return
... titles = set()
... for form in self.forms:
... if self.can_delete and self._should_delete_form(form):
... continue
... title = form.cleaned_data.get("title")
... if title in titles:
... raise ValidationError("Articles in a set must have distinct titles.")
... titles.add(title)
...
>>> ArticleFormSet = formset_factory(ArticleForm, formset=BaseArticleFormSet)
>>> data = {
... "form-TOTAL_FORMS": "2",
... "form-INITIAL_FORMS": "0",
... "form-0-title": "Test",
... "form-0-pub_date": "1904-06-16",
... "form-1-title": "Test",
... "form-1-pub_date": "1912-06-23",
... }
>>> formset = ArticleFormSet(data)
>>> formset.is_valid()
False
>>> formset.errors
[{}, {}]
>>> formset.non_form_errors()
['Articles in a set must have distinct titles.']
フォームセットの clean
メソッドは、Form.clean
メソッドが呼ばれた後に呼び出されます。エラーを取得するには、フォームセットの non_form_errors()
メソッドを使います。
Non-form errors will be rendered with an additional class of nonform
to
help distinguish them from form-specific errors. For example,
{{ formset.non_form_errors }}
would look like:
<ul class="errorlist nonform">
<li>Articles in a set must have distinct titles.</li>
</ul>
フォームセット内のフォームの数を検証する¶
送信されたフォームの最小および最大数を検証するために、Django にはいくつかの方法が用意されています。フォームの数のバリデーションをさらにカスタマイズする必要があるときは、カスタムのフォームセットバリデーションを使用する必要があります。
validate_max
¶
If validate_max=True
is passed to
formset_factory()
, validation will also check
that the number of forms in the data set, minus those marked for
deletion, is less than or equal to max_num
.
>>> from django.forms import formset_factory
>>> from myapp.forms import ArticleForm
>>> ArticleFormSet = formset_factory(ArticleForm, max_num=1, validate_max=True)
>>> data = {
... 'form-TOTAL_FORMS': '2',
... 'form-INITIAL_FORMS': '0',
... 'form-0-title': 'Test',
... 'form-0-pub_date': '1904-06-16',
... 'form-1-title': 'Test 2',
... 'form-1-pub_date': '1912-06-23',
... }
>>> formset = ArticleFormSet(data)
>>> formset.is_valid()
False
>>> formset.errors
[{}, {}]
>>> formset.non_form_errors()
['Please submit at most 1 form.']
validate_max=True
validates against max_num
strictly even if
max_num
was exceeded because the amount of initial data supplied was
excessive.
The error message can be customized by passing the 'too_many_forms'
message
to the error_messages argument.
注釈
Regardless of validate_max
, if the number of forms in a data set
exceeds absolute_max
, then the form will fail to validate as if
validate_max
were set, and additionally only the first absolute_max
forms will be validated. The remainder will be truncated entirely. This is
to protect against memory exhaustion attacks using forged POST requests.
See Limiting the maximum number of instantiated forms.
validate_min
¶
If validate_min=True
is passed to
formset_factory()
, validation will also check
that the number of forms in the data set, minus those marked for
deletion, is greater than or equal to min_num
.
>>> from django.forms import formset_factory
>>> from myapp.forms import ArticleForm
>>> ArticleFormSet = formset_factory(ArticleForm, min_num=3, validate_min=True)
>>> data = {
... 'form-TOTAL_FORMS': '2',
... 'form-INITIAL_FORMS': '0',
... 'form-0-title': 'Test',
... 'form-0-pub_date': '1904-06-16',
... 'form-1-title': 'Test 2',
... 'form-1-pub_date': '1912-06-23',
... }
>>> formset = ArticleFormSet(data)
>>> formset.is_valid()
False
>>> formset.errors
[{}, {}]
>>> formset.non_form_errors()
['Please submit at least 3 forms.']
The error message can be customized by passing the 'too_few_forms'
message
to the error_messages argument.
注釈
Regardless of validate_min
, if a formset contains no data, then
extra + min_num
empty forms will be displayed.
Dealing with ordering and deletion of forms¶
formset_factory()
には、フォームセット内のフォームの順序およびフォームセットからのフォームの削除に役立つ 2 つのオプション引数があります。
can_order
¶
-
BaseFormSet.
can_order
¶
デフォルト値: False
Lets you create a formset with the ability to order:
>>> from django.forms import formset_factory
>>> from myapp.forms import ArticleForm
>>> ArticleFormSet = formset_factory(ArticleForm, can_order=True)
>>> formset = ArticleFormSet(
... initial=[
... {"title": "Article #1", "pub_date": datetime.date(2008, 5, 10)},
... {"title": "Article #2", "pub_date": datetime.date(2008, 5, 11)},
... ]
... )
>>> for form in formset:
... print(form.as_table())
...
<tr><th><label for="id_form-0-title">Title:</label></th><td><input type="text" name="form-0-title" value="Article #1" id="id_form-0-title"></td></tr>
<tr><th><label for="id_form-0-pub_date">Pub date:</label></th><td><input type="text" name="form-0-pub_date" value="2008-05-10" id="id_form-0-pub_date"></td></tr>
<tr><th><label for="id_form-0-ORDER">Order:</label></th><td><input type="number" name="form-0-ORDER" value="1" id="id_form-0-ORDER"></td></tr>
<tr><th><label for="id_form-1-title">Title:</label></th><td><input type="text" name="form-1-title" value="Article #2" id="id_form-1-title"></td></tr>
<tr><th><label for="id_form-1-pub_date">Pub date:</label></th><td><input type="text" name="form-1-pub_date" value="2008-05-11" id="id_form-1-pub_date"></td></tr>
<tr><th><label for="id_form-1-ORDER">Order:</label></th><td><input type="number" name="form-1-ORDER" value="2" id="id_form-1-ORDER"></td></tr>
<tr><th><label for="id_form-2-title">Title:</label></th><td><input type="text" name="form-2-title" id="id_form-2-title"></td></tr>
<tr><th><label for="id_form-2-pub_date">Pub date:</label></th><td><input type="text" name="form-2-pub_date" id="id_form-2-pub_date"></td></tr>
<tr><th><label for="id_form-2-ORDER">Order:</label></th><td><input type="number" name="form-2-ORDER" id="id_form-2-ORDER"></td></tr>
This adds an additional field to each form. This new field is named ORDER
and is an forms.IntegerField
. For the forms that came from the initial
data it automatically assigned them a numeric value. Let's look at what will
happen when the user changes these values:
>>> data = {
... "form-TOTAL_FORMS": "3",
... "form-INITIAL_FORMS": "2",
... "form-0-title": "Article #1",
... "form-0-pub_date": "2008-05-10",
... "form-0-ORDER": "2",
... "form-1-title": "Article #2",
... "form-1-pub_date": "2008-05-11",
... "form-1-ORDER": "1",
... "form-2-title": "Article #3",
... "form-2-pub_date": "2008-05-01",
... "form-2-ORDER": "0",
... }
>>> formset = ArticleFormSet(
... data,
... initial=[
... {"title": "Article #1", "pub_date": datetime.date(2008, 5, 10)},
... {"title": "Article #2", "pub_date": datetime.date(2008, 5, 11)},
... ],
... )
>>> formset.is_valid()
True
>>> for form in formset.ordered_forms:
... print(form.cleaned_data)
...
{'pub_date': datetime.date(2008, 5, 1), 'ORDER': 0, 'title': 'Article #3'}
{'pub_date': datetime.date(2008, 5, 11), 'ORDER': 1, 'title': 'Article #2'}
{'pub_date': datetime.date(2008, 5, 10), 'ORDER': 2, 'title': 'Article #1'}
BaseFormSet
also provides an
ordering_widget
attribute and
get_ordering_widget()
method that
control the widget used with
can_order
.
ordering_widget
¶
-
BaseFormSet.
ordering_widget
¶
Default: NumberInput
Set ordering_widget
to specify the widget class to be used with
can_order
:
>>> from django.forms import BaseFormSet, formset_factory
>>> from myapp.forms import ArticleForm
>>> class BaseArticleFormSet(BaseFormSet):
... ordering_widget = HiddenInput
...
>>> ArticleFormSet = formset_factory(
... ArticleForm, formset=BaseArticleFormSet, can_order=True
... )
get_ordering_widget
¶
-
BaseFormSet.
get_ordering_widget
()¶
Override get_ordering_widget()
if you need to provide a widget instance for
use with can_order
:
>>> from django.forms import BaseFormSet, formset_factory
>>> from myapp.forms import ArticleForm
>>> class BaseArticleFormSet(BaseFormSet):
... def get_ordering_widget(self):
... return HiddenInput(attrs={"class": "ordering"})
...
>>> ArticleFormSet = formset_factory(
... ArticleForm, formset=BaseArticleFormSet, can_order=True
... )
can_delete
¶
-
BaseFormSet.
can_delete
¶
デフォルト値: False
Lets you create a formset with the ability to select forms for deletion:
>>> from django.forms import formset_factory
>>> from myapp.forms import ArticleForm
>>> ArticleFormSet = formset_factory(ArticleForm, can_delete=True)
>>> formset = ArticleFormSet(
... initial=[
... {"title": "Article #1", "pub_date": datetime.date(2008, 5, 10)},
... {"title": "Article #2", "pub_date": datetime.date(2008, 5, 11)},
... ]
... )
>>> for form in formset:
... print(form.as_table())
...
<tr><th><label for="id_form-0-title">Title:</label></th><td><input type="text" name="form-0-title" value="Article #1" id="id_form-0-title"></td></tr>
<tr><th><label for="id_form-0-pub_date">Pub date:</label></th><td><input type="text" name="form-0-pub_date" value="2008-05-10" id="id_form-0-pub_date"></td></tr>
<tr><th><label for="id_form-0-DELETE">Delete:</label></th><td><input type="checkbox" name="form-0-DELETE" id="id_form-0-DELETE"></td></tr>
<tr><th><label for="id_form-1-title">Title:</label></th><td><input type="text" name="form-1-title" value="Article #2" id="id_form-1-title"></td></tr>
<tr><th><label for="id_form-1-pub_date">Pub date:</label></th><td><input type="text" name="form-1-pub_date" value="2008-05-11" id="id_form-1-pub_date"></td></tr>
<tr><th><label for="id_form-1-DELETE">Delete:</label></th><td><input type="checkbox" name="form-1-DELETE" id="id_form-1-DELETE"></td></tr>
<tr><th><label for="id_form-2-title">Title:</label></th><td><input type="text" name="form-2-title" id="id_form-2-title"></td></tr>
<tr><th><label for="id_form-2-pub_date">Pub date:</label></th><td><input type="text" name="form-2-pub_date" id="id_form-2-pub_date"></td></tr>
<tr><th><label for="id_form-2-DELETE">Delete:</label></th><td><input type="checkbox" name="form-2-DELETE" id="id_form-2-DELETE"></td></tr>
Similar to can_order
this adds a new field to each form named DELETE
and is a forms.BooleanField
. When data comes through marking any of the
delete fields you can access them with deleted_forms
:
>>> data = {
... "form-TOTAL_FORMS": "3",
... "form-INITIAL_FORMS": "2",
... "form-0-title": "Article #1",
... "form-0-pub_date": "2008-05-10",
... "form-0-DELETE": "on",
... "form-1-title": "Article #2",
... "form-1-pub_date": "2008-05-11",
... "form-1-DELETE": "",
... "form-2-title": "",
... "form-2-pub_date": "",
... "form-2-DELETE": "",
... }
>>> formset = ArticleFormSet(
... data,
... initial=[
... {"title": "Article #1", "pub_date": datetime.date(2008, 5, 10)},
... {"title": "Article #2", "pub_date": datetime.date(2008, 5, 11)},
... ],
... )
>>> [form.cleaned_data for form in formset.deleted_forms]
[{'DELETE': True, 'pub_date': datetime.date(2008, 5, 10), 'title': 'Article #1'}]
If you are using a ModelFormSet
,
model instances for deleted forms will be deleted when you call
formset.save()
.
If you call formset.save(commit=False)
, objects will not be deleted
automatically. You'll need to call delete()
on each of the
formset.deleted_objects
to actually delete
them:
>>> instances = formset.save(commit=False)
>>> for obj in formset.deleted_objects:
... obj.delete()
...
On the other hand, if you are using a plain FormSet
, it's up to you to
handle formset.deleted_forms
, perhaps in your formset's save()
method,
as there's no general notion of what it means to delete a form.
BaseFormSet
also provides a
deletion_widget
attribute and
get_deletion_widget()
method that
control the widget used with
can_delete
.
deletion_widget
¶
-
BaseFormSet.
deletion_widget
¶
Default: CheckboxInput
Set deletion_widget
to specify the widget class to be used with
can_delete
:
>>> from django.forms import BaseFormSet, formset_factory
>>> from myapp.forms import ArticleForm
>>> class BaseArticleFormSet(BaseFormSet):
... deletion_widget = HiddenInput
...
>>> ArticleFormSet = formset_factory(
... ArticleForm, formset=BaseArticleFormSet, can_delete=True
... )
get_deletion_widget
¶
-
BaseFormSet.
get_deletion_widget
()¶
Override get_deletion_widget()
if you need to provide a widget instance for
use with can_delete
:
>>> from django.forms import BaseFormSet, formset_factory
>>> from myapp.forms import ArticleForm
>>> class BaseArticleFormSet(BaseFormSet):
... def get_deletion_widget(self):
... return HiddenInput(attrs={"class": "deletion"})
...
>>> ArticleFormSet = formset_factory(
... ArticleForm, formset=BaseArticleFormSet, can_delete=True
... )
Adding additional fields to a formset¶
If you need to add additional fields to the formset this can be easily
accomplished. The formset base class provides an add_fields
method. You
can override this method to add your own fields or even redefine the default
fields/attributes of the order and deletion fields:
>>> from django.forms import BaseFormSet
>>> from django.forms import formset_factory
>>> from myapp.forms import ArticleForm
>>> class BaseArticleFormSet(BaseFormSet):
... def add_fields(self, form, index):
... super().add_fields(form, index)
... form.fields["my_field"] = forms.CharField()
...
>>> ArticleFormSet = formset_factory(ArticleForm, formset=BaseArticleFormSet)
>>> formset = ArticleFormSet()
>>> for form in formset:
... print(form.as_table())
...
<tr><th><label for="id_form-0-title">Title:</label></th><td><input type="text" name="form-0-title" id="id_form-0-title"></td></tr>
<tr><th><label for="id_form-0-pub_date">Pub date:</label></th><td><input type="text" name="form-0-pub_date" id="id_form-0-pub_date"></td></tr>
<tr><th><label for="id_form-0-my_field">My field:</label></th><td><input type="text" name="form-0-my_field" id="id_form-0-my_field"></td></tr>
Passing custom parameters to formset forms¶
Sometimes your form class takes custom parameters, like MyArticleForm
.
You can pass this parameter when instantiating the formset:
>>> from django.forms import BaseFormSet
>>> from django.forms import formset_factory
>>> from myapp.forms import ArticleForm
>>> class MyArticleForm(ArticleForm):
... def __init__(self, *args, user, **kwargs):
... self.user = user
... super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
...
>>> ArticleFormSet = formset_factory(MyArticleForm)
>>> formset = ArticleFormSet(form_kwargs={"user": request.user})
The form_kwargs
may also depend on the specific form instance. The formset
base class provides a get_form_kwargs
method. The method takes a single
argument - the index of the form in the formset. The index is None
for the
empty_form:
>>> from django.forms import BaseFormSet
>>> from django.forms import formset_factory
>>> class BaseArticleFormSet(BaseFormSet):
... def get_form_kwargs(self, index):
... kwargs = super().get_form_kwargs(index)
... kwargs["custom_kwarg"] = index
... return kwargs
...
>>> ArticleFormSet = formset_factory(MyArticleForm, formset=BaseArticleFormSet)
>>> formset = ArticleFormSet()
Customizing a formset's prefix¶
In the rendered HTML, formsets include a prefix on each field's name. By
default, the prefix is 'form'
, but it can be customized using the formset's
prefix
argument.
For example, in the default case, you might see:
<label for="id_form-0-title">Title:</label>
<input type="text" name="form-0-title" id="id_form-0-title">
But with ArticleFormset(prefix='article')
that becomes:
<label for="id_article-0-title">Title:</label>
<input type="text" name="article-0-title" id="id_article-0-title">
This is useful if you want to use more than one formset in a view.
Using a formset in views and templates¶
Formsets have the following attributes and methods associated with rendering:
-
BaseFormSet.
renderer
¶ Specifies the renderer to use for the formset. Defaults to the renderer specified by the
FORM_RENDERER
setting.
-
BaseFormSet.
template_name
¶ The name of the template rendered if the formset is cast into a string, e.g. via
print(formset)
or in a template via{{ formset }}
.By default, a property returning the value of the renderer's
formset_template_name
. You may set it as a string template name in order to override that for a particular formset class.This template will be used to render the formset's management form, and then each form in the formset as per the template defined by the form's
template_name
.Changed in Django 4.1:In older versions
template_name
defaulted to the string value'django/forms/formset/default.html'
.
-
BaseFormSet.
template_name_div
¶ - New in Django 4.1.
The name of the template used when calling
as_div()
. By default this is"django/forms/formsets/div.html"
. This template renders the formset's management form and then each form in the formset as per the form'sas_div()
method.
-
BaseFormSet.
template_name_p
¶ The name of the template used when calling
as_p()
. By default this is"django/forms/formsets/p.html"
. This template renders the formset's management form and then each form in the formset as per the form'sas_p()
method.
-
BaseFormSet.
template_name_table
¶ The name of the template used when calling
as_table()
. By default this is"django/forms/formsets/table.html"
. This template renders the formset's management form and then each form in the formset as per the form'sas_table()
method.
-
BaseFormSet.
template_name_ul
¶ The name of the template used when calling
as_ul()
. By default this is"django/forms/formsets/ul.html"
. This template renders the formset's management form and then each form in the formset as per the form'sas_ul()
method.
-
BaseFormSet.
get_context
()¶ Returns the context for rendering a formset in a template.
The available context is:
formset
: The instance of the formset.
-
BaseFormSet.
render
(template_name=None, context=None, renderer=None)¶ The render method is called by
__str__
as well as theas_div()
,as_p()
,as_ul()
, andas_table()
methods. All arguments are optional and will default to:template_name
:template_name
context
: Value returned byget_context()
renderer
: Value returned byrenderer
-
BaseFormSet.
as_div
()¶ - New in Django 4.1.
Renders the formset with the
template_name_div
template.
-
BaseFormSet.
as_p
()¶ Renders the formset with the
template_name_p
template.
-
BaseFormSet.
as_table
()¶ Renders the formset with the
template_name_table
template.
-
BaseFormSet.
as_ul
()¶ Renders the formset with the
template_name_ul
template.
Using a formset inside a view is not very different from using a regular
Form
class. The only thing you will want to be aware of is making sure to
use the management form inside the template. Let's look at a sample view:
from django.forms import formset_factory
from django.shortcuts import render
from myapp.forms import ArticleForm
def manage_articles(request):
ArticleFormSet = formset_factory(ArticleForm)
if request.method == "POST":
formset = ArticleFormSet(request.POST, request.FILES)
if formset.is_valid():
# do something with the formset.cleaned_data
pass
else:
formset = ArticleFormSet()
return render(request, "manage_articles.html", {"formset": formset})
The manage_articles.html
template might look like this:
<form method="post">
{{ formset.management_form }}
<table>
{% for form in formset %}
{{ form }}
{% endfor %}
</table>
</form>
However there's a slight shortcut for the above by letting the formset itself deal with the management form:
<form method="post">
<table>
{{ formset }}
</table>
</form>
The above ends up calling the BaseFormSet.render()
method on the formset
class. This renders the formset using the template specified by the
template_name
attribute. Similar to forms, by default the
formset will be rendered as_table
, with other helper methods of as_p
and as_ul
being available. The rendering of the formset can be customized
by specifying the template_name
attribute, or more generally by
overriding the default template.
Manually rendered can_delete
and can_order
¶
If you manually render fields in the template, you can render
can_delete
parameter with {{ form.DELETE }}
:
<form method="post">
{{ formset.management_form }}
{% for form in formset %}
<ul>
<li>{{ form.title }}</li>
<li>{{ form.pub_date }}</li>
{% if formset.can_delete %}
<li>{{ form.DELETE }}</li>
{% endif %}
</ul>
{% endfor %}
</form>
Similarly, if the formset has the ability to order (can_order=True
), it is
possible to render it with {{ form.ORDER }}
.
Using more than one formset in a view¶
You are able to use more than one formset in a view if you like. Formsets
borrow much of its behavior from forms. With that said you are able to use
prefix
to prefix formset form field names with a given value to allow
more than one formset to be sent to a view without name clashing. Let's take
a look at how this might be accomplished:
from django.forms import formset_factory
from django.shortcuts import render
from myapp.forms import ArticleForm, BookForm
def manage_articles(request):
ArticleFormSet = formset_factory(ArticleForm)
BookFormSet = formset_factory(BookForm)
if request.method == "POST":
article_formset = ArticleFormSet(request.POST, request.FILES, prefix="articles")
book_formset = BookFormSet(request.POST, request.FILES, prefix="books")
if article_formset.is_valid() and book_formset.is_valid():
# do something with the cleaned_data on the formsets.
pass
else:
article_formset = ArticleFormSet(prefix="articles")
book_formset = BookFormSet(prefix="books")
return render(
request,
"manage_articles.html",
{
"article_formset": article_formset,
"book_formset": book_formset,
},
)
You would then render the formsets as normal. It is important to point out
that you need to pass prefix
on both the POST and non-POST cases so that
it is rendered and processed correctly.
Each formset's prefix replaces the default form
prefix that's added to each field's name
and id
HTML attributes.