Working with a Custom, Dynamic Form (using BaseForm)

Hi,

Have hit a huge roadblock trying to implement a custom, dynamic form into my django project. Although I am more familiar with using ModelForms, I need to use BaseForm to work with the structure I already have in place.

I have a dictionary of objects inside of my Model 'Photographer' that I am trying to pass into my form. The objects from 'Photographer' will be a drop down option for the user to select from, then will become part of an instance of another model 'A' after the user submits the form. I cannot figure out how to include the objects from 'Photographer' into my form, given the following form structure:

    class AForm(BaseForm):

        def __init__(self, data=None, files=None, instance=None, auto_id='id_%s',

                     prefix=None, initial=None, error_class=ErrorList,

                     label_suffix=':', empty_permitted=False):

            if not instance:

                raise NotImplementedError("Instance must be provided")

            self.instance = instance

            object_data = self.instance.fields_dict()

            self.declared_fields = SortedDict()

            self.base_fields = fields_for_a(self.instance)

            # if initial was provided, it should override the values from instance

            if initial is not None:

                object_data.update(initial)

            BaseForm.__init__(self, data, files, auto_id, prefix, object_data,

                              error_class, label_suffix, empty_permitted)

            cleaned_data = self.cleaned_data

            # save fieldvalues for self.instance

            fields = field_list(self.instance)

            for field in fields:

                if field.enable_wysiwyg:

                    value = unicode(strip(cleaned_data[field.name]))

                else:

                    value = unicode(cleaned_data[field.name])

            return self.instance

For a more full representation of the problem in general, including all of the models and a lot of the view code, please see my stack overflow question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11548992/adding-values-to-complex-django-view. 

I cannot thank you enough for any advice given. I have been struggling with this issue for over a month, sadly. I appreciate any commentary.

Thank you!

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