How to make fields optional

[akrf]

I have a model with a optional many to many relationship to another model.

class Author(models.Model):
    name = models.Charfield(max_length=255, unique=True)
    ...

class Article(models.Model):
    name = models.Charfield(max_length=255, unique=True)
    authors = models.ManyToManyField(Author, blank=True, null=True)
    ...

I want to use django-autocomplete-light to allow auto-completion for authors on my article creation view, so I create a model form.

class ArticleForm(autocomplete_light.ModelForm):

    class Meta:
        model = Article
        fields = ['name', 'authors', ...]

That works great in my view, just as expected. The author field is optional, and auto suggestions work. But now I want to limit the authors that are suggested, so I create a new autocomplete and register it:

class AuthorAutocomplete(autocomplete_light.AutocompleteModelBase):
    search_fields = ['^name']

    def choices_for_request(self):
        # build the queryset and return it

And then alter the form to use it:

class ArticleForm(autocomplete_light.ModelForm):
    authors = autocomplete_light.ModelMultipleChoiceField('AuthorAutocomplete')

    class Meta:
        model = Article
        fields = ['name', 'authors', ...]

Now auto-completion works, the suggested authors are limited to the choices I want, but the authors field is required on the form. Where do I specify that the authors field is still optional?

[jpic]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 11:48 PM, akrf notifications@github.com wrote:

authors =
autocomplete_light.ModelMultipleChoiceField('AuthorAutocomplete')

required=False.

Here the most DRY option would be to have something like
ArticleForm.Meta.autocomplete_light_configuration = {'author': 'AuthorAutocomplete'}

Pull requests are welcome B0

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