Set Django IntegerField by choices=… name

Question

When you have a model field with a choices option you tend to have some magic values associated with human readable names. Is there in Django a convenient way to set these f

Answer 1

Originally I used a modified version of @Allan's answer:

from enum import IntEnum, EnumMeta

class IntegerChoiceField(models.IntegerField):
    def __init__(self, choices, **kwargs):
        if hasattr(choices, '__iter__') and isinstance(choices, EnumMeta):
            choices = list(zip(range(1, len(choices) + 1), [member.name for member in list(choices)]))

        kwargs['choices'] = choices
        super(models.IntegerField, self).__init__(**kwargs)

    def to_python(self, value):
        return self.choices(value)

    def get_db_prep_value(self, choice):
        return self.choices[choice]

models.IntegerChoiceField = IntegerChoiceField

GEAR = IntEnum('GEAR', 'HEAD BODY FEET HANDS SHIELD NECK UNKNOWN')

class Gear(Item, models.Model):
    # Safe to assume last element is largest value member of an enum?
    #type = models.IntegerChoiceField(GEAR, default=list(GEAR)[-1].name)
    largest_member = GEAR(max([member.value for member in list(GEAR)]))
    type = models.IntegerChoiceField(GEAR, default=largest_member)

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(Gear, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

        for member in GEAR:
            setattr(self, member.name, member.value)

print(Gear().HEAD, (Gear().HEAD == GEAR.HEAD.value))

Simplified with the django-enumfields package package which I now use:

from enumfields import EnumIntegerField, IntEnum

GEAR = IntEnum('GEAR', 'HEAD BODY FEET HANDS SHIELD NECK UNKNOWN')

class Gear(Item, models.Model):
    # Safe to assume last element is largest value member of an enum?
    type = EnumIntegerField(GEAR, default=list(GEAR)[-1])
    #largest_member = GEAR(max([member.value for member in list(GEAR)]))
    #type = EnumIntegerField(GEAR, default=largest_member)

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(Gear, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

        for member in GEAR:
            setattr(self, member.name, member.value)