Fixed #20000 -- Allowed ModelForm meta overrides for label, help_text and error_messages

1 files changed, 44 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt b/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt
index d325a15cca..bd9e14aea4 100644
--- a/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ In addition, each generated form field has attributes set as follows:
   ``default`` value will be initially selected instead).
 
 Finally, note that you can override the form field used for a given model
-field. See `Overriding the default field types or widgets`_ below.
+field. See `Overriding the default fields`_ below.
 
 A full example
 --------------
@@ -388,8 +388,10 @@ include that field.
 
 .. _section on saving forms: `The save() method`_
 
-Overriding the default field types or widgets
----------------------------------------------
+.. _modelforms-overriding-default-fields:
+
+Overriding the default fields
+-----------------------------
 
 The default field types, as described in the `Field types`_ table above, are
 sensible defaults. If you have a ``DateField`` in your model, chances are you'd
@@ -420,38 +422,65 @@ widget::
 The ``widgets`` dictionary accepts either widget instances (e.g.,
 ``Textarea(...)``) or classes (e.g., ``Textarea``).
 
-If you want to further customize a field -- including its type, label, etc. --
-you can do this by declaratively specifying fields like you would in a regular
-``Form``. Declared fields will override the default ones generated by using the
-``model`` attribute.
+.. versionadded:: 1.6
+
+    The ``labels``, ``help_texts`` and ``error_messages`` options were added.
+
+Similarly, you can specify the ``labels``, ``help_texts`` and ``error_messages``
+attributes of the inner ``Meta`` class if you want to further customize a field.
 
-For example, if you wanted to use ``MyDateFormField`` for the ``pub_date``
+For example if you wanted to customize the wording of all user facing strings for
+the ``name`` field::
+
+    class AuthorForm(ModelForm):
+        class Meta:
+            model = Author
+            fields = ('name', 'title', 'birth_date')
+            labels = {
+                'name': _('Writer'),
+            }
+            help_texts = {
+                'name': _('Some useful help text.'),
+            }
+            error_messages = {
+                'name': {
+                    'max_length': _("This writer's name is too long."),
+                },
+            }
+
+Finally, if you want complete control over of a field -- including its type,
+validators, etc. -- you can do this by declaratively specifying fields like you
+would in a regular ``Form``. Declared fields will override the default ones
+generated by using the ``model`` attribute. Fields declared like this will
+ignore any customizations in the ``widgets``, ``labels``, ``help_texts``, and
+``error_messages`` options declared on ``Meta``.
+
+For example, if you wanted to use ``MySlugFormField`` for the ``slug``
 field, you could do the following::
 
     from django.forms import ModelForm
     from myapp.models import Article
 
     class ArticleForm(ModelForm):
-        pub_date = MyDateFormField()
+        slug = MySlugFormField()
 
         class Meta:
             model = Article
             fields = ['pub_date', 'headline', 'content', 'reporter']
 
 
-If you want to override a field's default label, then specify the ``label``
-parameter when declaring the form field::
+If you want to override a field's default validators, then specify the
+``validators`` parameter when declaring the form field::
 
     from django.forms import ModelForm, DateField
     from myapp.models import Article
 
     class ArticleForm(ModelForm):
-        pub_date = DateField(label='Publication date')
+        slug = CharField(validators=[validate_slug])
 
         class Meta:
             model = Article
-            fields = ['pub_date', 'headline', 'content', 'reporter']
-
+            fields = ['pub_date', 'headline', 'content', 'reporter', 'slug']
 
 .. note::
 
@@ -597,7 +626,7 @@ example by specifying the widgets to be used for a given field::
 
     >>> from django.forms import Textarea
     >>> Form = modelform_factory(Book, form=BookForm,
-                                 widgets={"title": Textarea()})
+    ...                          widgets={"title": Textarea()})
 
 The fields to include can be specified using the ``fields`` and ``exclude``
 keyword arguments, or the corresponding attributes on the ``ModelForm`` inner