Re: Referencing objects that don't exist that will be created in forms

Hi All

Ive overcome it by adding doing this:

def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
    super(UniversityForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
    self.fields['name'].choices = University.objects.values_list('id', 'name')

This makes sense. Don't reference objects that will be parsed before they exist 

On Thursday, 19 October 2017 10:23:36 UTC+1, Chris Wedgwood wrote:

Hi

I have the following scenario in my forms.py:

UNIVERSITY_CHOICES = University.objects.values_list('id', 'name')

class UniversityForm(forms.Form):
    name = forms.CharField(widget=forms.Select(attrs={"class":
"selectpicker", "data-live-search": "true","title": "find
university..."},choices=UNIVERSITY_CHOICES), required=False)

The migration fails as it is expecting the university table to exist
but does not yet.
This is clearly an anti-pattern on my part. What is the correct way to
approach this?

thanks
Chris

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