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Advanced Django Forms Usage

Daniel Greenfeld

Audience level:
Intermediate
Category:
Web Frameworks

Description

Django forms are really powerful but there are edge cases, especially with class based views), that can cause a bit of anguish. This talk will go over how to handle many common solutions not currently described in the core documentation. It will also cover useful third-party libraries.

Abstract

Django forms are really powerful but there are edge cases, especially with class based views), that can cause a bit of anguish. This talk will go over how to handle many common solutions not currently described in the core documentation. It will also cover useful third-party libraries.

Material covered:

  1. Django forms in functional views [5 min]
    • Economize your code with the request.POST practice
    • Understanding the ramifications of the request.POST practice
  2. Django forms in class based views [5 min]
    • UpdateView without a slug
    • Two or more forms in a single view
  3. Modifying forms on the fly [5 min]
    • Adding fields
    • Changing widgets
  4. Using forms to provide schema for schemaless datastores [5 min]
  5. Coverage on two 3rd party form libraries you should consider using [5 min]
    • django-crispy-forms
    • django-floppy-forms
  6. Third party libraries that get twitter bootstrap into your forms [2 min]
  7. Adding date widgets the easy way [3 min]

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