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id	created	changetime	last_pulled_from_trac	stage	status	component	type	severity	version	resolution	summary	description	owner	reporter	keywords	easy	has_patch	needs_better_patch	needs_tests	needs_docs	ui_ux
10874	2009-04-20 09:57:02	2022-03-01 11:07:07	2022-03-06 03:48:28.495805	Accepted	new	Forms	New feature	Normal	1.0		ModelFormMetaclass does not provide easy way of extending	I am currently creating an extension to the ModelForm that provides similar features to Admin such as fieldsets. Unfortunately, the ModelFormMetaclass does not provide easy way of extending ModelForm. For example, I need to access meta information for fieldsets and dynamicaly flatten to fields before method fields_for_model is called. Also, what if I wanted to override fields for model. There is no way of doing this without completely overriting the entire ModelFormMetaclass. It seems that the meta class approach initialization does not support granual overriding of logic. I have made the following code change to django ModelFormMetaclass to ease my pain for now. However, in the long run it may not be enought. {{{ class ModelFormMetaclass(type): .... options_class = attrs.pop('options_class', ModelFormOptions) opts = new_class._meta = options_class(getattr(new_class, 'Meta', None)) ... }}} The following is the code that uses this: {{{ class DynamicModelFormOptions(ModelFormOptions): def __init__(self, options=None): super(DynamicModelFormOptions,self).__init__(options) self.fieldsets = getattr(options, 'fieldsets', None) self.fieldwidths = getattr(options, 'fieldwidths', None) if self.fieldsets: self.fields = flatten_fieldsets(self.fieldsets) class DynamicModelFormMetaclass(ModelFormMetaclass): def __new__(cls, name, bases, attrs): attrs['formfield_callback'] = formfield_for_dbfield attrs['options_class'] = DynamicModelFormOptions new_class = super(DynamicModelFormMetaclass, cls).__new__(cls, name, bases, attrs) #new_class._meta = DynamicModelFormOptions(getattr(new_class, 'Meta', None)) #assign_default_widgets(new_class.base_fields) return new_class }}}	nobody	wombat		0	0	0	0	0	0