I am hoping to dynamically update a ModelForm\'s inline Meta class from my view. Although this code seems to update the exclude list in the Meta class, the output from
Similar approach, somewhat different goal (generic ModelForm for arbitrary models):
from django.contrib.admin.widgets import AdminDateWidget
from django.forms import ModelForm
from django.db import models
def ModelFormFactory(some_model, *args, **kwargs):
"""
Create a ModelForm for some_model
"""
widdict = {}
# set some widgets for special fields
for field in some_model._meta.local_fields:
if type(field) is models.DateField:
widdict[field.name] = AdminDateWidget()
class MyModelForm(ModelForm): # I use my personal BaseModelForm as parent
class Meta:
model = some_model
widgets = widdict
return MyModelForm(*args, **kwargs)