How do you set a default value for a WTForms SelectField?

Question

When attempting to set the default value of a SelectField with WTForms, I pass in value to the \'default\' parameter like so.

class TestForm(Form):
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Answer 1

I have some problem with dynamic set default selectfield thati think can be useful. the model was like this:

class State(db.Model):
    __tablename__ = 'states'
    id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)   
    name = db.Column(db.String(128), nullable=False)


class City(db.Model):
    __tablename__ = 'cities'
    id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
    name = db.Column(db.String(64))
    state_id = db.Column(db.Integer, db.ForeignKey('states.id'))   
    state = db.relationship(State, backref='state')


class User(UserMixin, db.Model):
    ...
    city_id = db.Column(db.Integer, db.ForeignKey('cities.id'))
    city = db.relationship('City', backref='city')

the form was like this:

class UserEditForm(FlaskForm):
    ...
    state = SelectField("state", coerce=int)
    city = SelectField("city", coerce=int)
    ....

  def __init__(self, state_id, *args, **kwargs):
       super(UserEditForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
       self.state.choices =  [(state.id, state.name)
                        for state in State.query.order_by('name').all()]
       self.city.choices = [(city.id, city.name)
                            for city in   City.query.filter_by(state_id=state_id).order_by('name').all()]   

and the view was like this:

@dashboard.route('/useredit', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
@login_required
def useredit():
    ....
    user = current_user._get_current_object()       
    form = OrganEditForm(state_id=user.city.state_id, state=user.city.state_id, city=user.city_id)
     ....

it works good and set Selectfield default value correctly. but i changed the code like this:

in view:

@dashboard.route('/useredit', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
    @login_required
    def useredit():
        ....
        user = current_user._get_current_object()       
        form = OrganEditForm(obj=user)
         ....

in forms

def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
       super(UserEditForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
       self.state.choices =  [(state.id, state.name)
                        for state in State.query.order_by('name').all()]
       self.city.choices = [(city.id, city.name)
                            for city in   City.query.filter_by(state_id=kwargs['obj'].city.state_id).order_by('name').all()] 

but this time the city default value doesn't set. i changed form like this:

def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
           kwargs['city'] = kwargs['obj'].city_id
           super(UserEditForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
           self.state.choices =  [(state.id, state.name)
                            for state in State.query.order_by('name').all()]
           self.city.choices = [(city.id, city.name)
                                for city in   City.query.filter_by(state_id=kwargs['obj'].city.state_id).order_by('name').all()] 

but it didn't work. I tried many solution and in the last I changed the city variable name to usercity:

usercity= SelectField("city", coerce=int)

and kwargs['city'] = kwargs['obj'].city_id to kwargs['usercity'] = kwargs['obj'].city_id. affter that it worked correctly.

the problem was that when I set obj=user, default value for city selectfield read from kwargs['obj'].city that I defined in user model.