Django Multi. Form View

Django class based views for using more than one Form or ModelForm in a single view.

Install

$ pip install django-multi-form-view

Usage

MultiFormView (Example)

class multi_form_view.MultiFormView
A single view that can display multiple Django forms. Handles displaying, redisplaying on error, and redirects on form success in.

Extends

• django.views.generic import FormView

Attributes and Methods

• form_classes
  A dictionary containing to forms for the view.
• are_forms_valid()
  Check if all forms defined in form_classes are valid.
• forms_valid()
  Redirects to get_success_url().
• forms_invalid()
  Renders a response containing the form errors.
• get()
  Render the forms.
• get_context_data()
  Adds the results of get_forms() to the context dictionary with the key 'forms'.
• get_forms().
  Initializes the forms defined in form_classes with initial data from get_initial() and kwargs from get_form_kwargs().
• get_form_kwargs(). Build the keyword arguments required to instantiate the form.
• get_initial()
  Returns a copy of initial with empty initial data dictionaries for each form.
• post() Uses are_forms_valid() to call either forms_valid() or forms_invalid().

MultiModelFormView (Example)

class multi_form_view.MultiModelFormView
A single view that can display multiple Django ModelForms. Handles displaying, redisplaying on error, and redirects on form success in.

Extends

• multi_form_view.MultiFormView

Attributes and Methods

• forms_valid()
  Calls save() on each form.
• get_forms().
  Initializes the forms defined in form_classes with initial data from get_initial(), kwargs from get_form_kwargs() and form instance object from get_objects().
• get_objects()
  Returns dictionary with the instance objects for each form. Keys should match the corresponding form.

Demo

$ cd demo
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ python manage.py migrate
$ python manage.py runserver

Testing

Install PhantomJS

$ python demo/manage.py behave