This is the result of Christopher Medrela's 2013 Summer of Code project.
Thanks also to Preston Holmes, Tim Graham, Anssi Kääriäinen, Florian
Apolloner, and Alex Gaynor for review notes along the way.
Also: Fixes#8579, fixes#3055, fixes#19844.
On Python 3 sorting Fields mixed with GenericForeignKeys doesn't work
as GenericForeignKey isn't a subclass of django.db.models.fields.Field.
Refs #21428.
The GenericRelation refactoring removed GenericRelations from
model._meta.many_to_many. This had the side effect of disallowing
editable GenericRelations in ModelForms. Editable GenericRelations
aren't officially supported, but if we don't fix this we don't offer any
upgrade path for those who used the ability to set editable=True
in GenericRelation subclass.
Thanks to Trac alias joshcartme for the report and stephencmd and Loic
for working on this issue.
model_to_dict() (used when rendering forms) queries the database
to get the list of primary keys for ManyToMany fields. This is
unnecessary if the field queryset has been prefetched, all the
keys are already in memory and can be obtained with a simple
iteration.
When a formset contained deletion for an existing instance, and the
instance was already deleted, django threw an exception. A common cause for
this was resubmit of the formset.
Original patch by Trac alias olau.
In addition this commit cleaned some code in _construct_form(). This
was needed as the primary key value the user submitted wasn't converted
correctly to python value in case the primary key field was also a
related field.
The __eq__ method now considers two instances without primary key value
equal only when they have same id(). The __hash__ method raises
TypeError for no primary key case.
Fixed#18864, fixed#18250
Thanks to Tim Graham for docs review.
Don't try to be smart about building a good-looking help string
because it evaluates translations too early, simply use the same old
strategy as before. Thanks Donald Stufft for the report.
Also, actually fix the case reported by the OP by special-casing
CheckboxSelectMultiple.
Added tests.
Refs #9321.
This is backward incompatible for custom form field/widgets that rely
on the hard-coded 'Hold down "Control", or "Command" on a Mac, to select
more than one.' sentence.
Application that use standard model form fields and widgets aren't
affected but need to start handling these help texts by themselves
before Django 1.8.
For more details, see the related release notes and deprecation timeline
sections added with this commit.
This also updates all dependent functionality, including modelform_factory
and modelformset_factory, and the generic views `ModelFormMixin`,
`CreateView` and `UpdateView` which gain a new `fields` attribute.
This is provided as a new "validate_max" formset_factory option defaulting to
False, since the non-validating behavior of max_num is longstanding, and there
is certainly code relying on it. (In fact, even the Django admin relies on it
for the case where there are more existing inlines than the given max_num). It
may be that at some point we want to deprecate validate_max=False and
eventually remove the option, but this commit takes no steps in that direction.
This also fixes the DoS-prevention absolute_max enforcement so that it causes a
form validation error rather than an IndexError, and ensures that absolute_max
is always 1000 more than max_num, to prevent surprising changes in behavior
with max_num close to absolute_max.
Lastly, this commit fixes the previous inconsistency between a regular formset
and a model formset in the precedence of max_num and initial data. Previously
in a regular formset, if the provided initial data was longer than max_num, it
was truncated; in a model formset, all initial forms would be displayed
regardless of max_num. Now regular formsets are the same as model formsets; all
initial forms are displayed, even if more than max_num. (But if validate_max is
True, submitting these forms will result in a "too many forms" validation
error!) This combination of behaviors was chosen to keep the max_num validation
simple and consistent, and avoid silent data loss due to truncation of initial
data.
Thanks to Preston for discussion of the design choices.
Russell Keith-Magee
Loic Bistuer
Claude Paroz
Christopher Medrela
Anssi Kääriäinen
Alex Gaynor
Jim Bailey
Alasdair Nicol
Alasdair Nicol
Tim Graham
Simon Charette
Curtis Maloney
Aymeric Augustin
Stephen Burrows
Ramiro Morales
Erik Romijn
Luke Plant
Baptiste Mispelon
Andrew Gorcester
Klaas van Schelven