access django model fields label and help_text

Question

I have something like this:

class ContactData(models.Model):
    name  = models.CharField(max_length=300, verbose_name=u\"Name\", help_text=u\"Please enter y         


        

Answer 1

I know this is old, but it deserves a full answer that can be used in templates.

If you need to use it in a template, the preferred method is to add model methods that get these values, such as:

from django.db import models
from six import text_type

class ContactData(models.Model):
    name  = models.CharField(max_length=300, verbose_name=u"Name", help_text=u"Please enter your name...",null=True, blank=False)
    phone = models.CharField(max_length=300, verbose_name=u"Phone number", null=True, blank=False)

    def __get_label(self, field):
        return text_type(self._meta.get_field(field).verbose_name)

    def __get_help_text(self, field)
        return text_type(self._meta.get_field(field).help_text)

    @property
    def name_label(self):
        return self.__get_label('name')

    @property
    def name_help_text(self):
        return self.__get_help_text('name')

    @property
    def phone_label(self):
        return self.__get_label('phone')

    @property
    def phone_help_text(self):
        return self.__get_help_text('phone')

Then, let us say instance is your object in a template, this is your label

{{ instance.phone_label }}
{{ instance.phone }}

Alternatively, you could create a template tag to do this, but the model method is clearer and keeps the model self contained.