Re: Model field choices

Thanks, Steve. Sounds like a plan.

On Sep 28, 10:48 pm, Steve Holden <holden...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/28/2010 10:39 PM, Derek wrote:
>
> > I have a model which has choices specified for the "offer_type" field:
>
> > class Coupon(models.Model):
> >    offer_types = (
> >            (1, 'Percentage Off'),
> >            (2, 'Amount Off'),
> >            (3, 'Free'),
> >    )
>
> >    business = models.ForeignKey(Business)
> >    offer_type = models.IntegerField(choices=offer_types)
>
> > How do I then retrieve the "human readable" values when referencing a
> > Coupon object?  Right now Coupon.objects.get(id=1).offer_type returns
> > the numeric value only ("3" instead of "free"... which I suppose is to
> > be expected).
>
> > Thanks!
>
> You should find that your model instances have a
> get_offer_type_display() method that you can call to retrieve the value
> that the user sees in the interface. These methods are added for each
> field with choices set in its definition.
>
> regards
>  Steve
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