Django Comments: Want to remove user URL, not expand the model. How to?

Question

I\'m totally understanding the documentation on expanding the Comments app in Django, and really would like to stick with the automatic functionality but...

Answer 1

I can't comment onto SmileyChris' post for some reason, so I am going to post it here. But, I ran into errors using just SmileyChris' response. You also have to overwrite the get_comment_create_data function because CommentForm is going to look for those Post keys that you removed. So here's my code after I removed three fields.

class SlimCommentForm(CommentForm):
"""
A comment form which matches the default djanago.contrib.comments one, but with 3 removed fields
"""
def get_comment_create_data(self):
    # Use the data of the superclass, and remove extra fields
    return dict(
        content_type = ContentType.objects.get_for_model(self.target_object),
        object_pk    = force_unicode(self.target_object._get_pk_val()),
        comment      = self.cleaned_data["comment"],
        submit_date  = datetime.datetime.now(),
        site_id      = settings.SITE_ID,
        is_public    = True,
        is_removed   = False,
    )


SlimCommentForm.base_fields.pop('url')
SlimCommentForm.base_fields.pop('email')
SlimCommentForm.base_fields.pop('name')

This is the function that you are overwriting

def get_comment_create_data(self):
    """
    Returns the dict of data to be used to create a comment. Subclasses in
    custom comment apps that override get_comment_model can override this
    method to add extra fields onto a custom comment model.
    """
    return dict(
        content_type = ContentType.objects.get_for_model(self.target_object),
        object_pk    = force_unicode(self.target_object._get_pk_val()),
        user_name    = self.cleaned_data["name"],
        user_email   = self.cleaned_data["email"],
        user_url     = self.cleaned_data["url"],
        comment      = self.cleaned_data["comment"],
        submit_date  = datetime.datetime.now(),
        site_id      = settings.SITE_ID,
        is_public    = True,
        is_removed   = False,
    )