Re: How do I get dynamic choices to a select widget at render time?

On 20/02/2018 11:51 PM, Andy wrote:
> use django-select2

Had a look at the docs and django-select2 doesn't address this use case.
However, I can see I will need it for ORM related selections in the near
term.

Thanks Andy.

>
> Am Dienstag, 20. Februar 2018 01:17:26 UTC+1 schrieb Mike Dewhirst:
>
> Here is an example of get_choices() output ... it comes from a
> method on
> the Question model.
>
>   [('A', 'A - Once?'), ('B', 'B - Twice?'), ('C', 'C - Four times?'),
> ('D', 'D - Twelve times?'), ('E', 'E - Continously as changes are
> made?')]
>
> It is available before the the answer form is instantiated ...
>
> class AnswerSingleForm(forms.ModelForm):
>
>      class Meta:
>          model = Answer
>          fields = [
>              'answer',
>              'score'
>          ]
>
> So how do I get that set of choices into the Answer form?
>
> I can see from the docs that the form Meta class can have a widgets
> attribute for the 'answer' field. I think I need a ChoiceField
> widget so
> I can include the choices. I tried using __init__() in the form
> class to
> get the choices on board at instantiation but still couldn't get it
> going because class Meta doesn't see 'self'.
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Stumped
>
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