Fixed #3489 -- Changed newforms to use copy.copy() in constructing self.fields, so changes to self.fields in a given form instance do not affect other instances

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@4504 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

1 files changed, 37 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/forms/tests.py b/tests/regressiontests/forms/tests.py
index be17864b9d..b96b62a221 100644
--- a/tests/regressiontests/forms/tests.py
+++ b/tests/regressiontests/forms/tests.py
@@ -2334,6 +2334,43 @@ the next.
 <tr><th>Field3:</th><td><input type="text" name="field3" /></td></tr>
 <tr><th>Field4:</th><td><input type="text" name="field4" /></td></tr>
 
+Similarly, changes to field attributes do not persist from one Form instance
+to the next.
+>>> class Person(Form):
+...     first_name = CharField(required=False)
+...     last_name = CharField(required=False)
+...     def __init__(self, names_required=False, *args, **kwargs):
+...         super(Person, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+...         if names_required:
+...             self.fields['first_name'].required = True
+...             self.fields['last_name'].required = True
+>>> f = Person(names_required=False)
+>>> f['first_name'].field.required, f['last_name'].field.required
+(False, False)
+>>> f = Person(names_required=True)
+>>> f['first_name'].field.required, f['last_name'].field.required
+(True, True)
+>>> f = Person(names_required=False)
+>>> f['first_name'].field.required, f['last_name'].field.required
+(False, False)
+>>> class Person(Form):
+...     first_name = CharField(max_length=30)
+...     last_name = CharField(max_length=30)
+...     def __init__(self, name_max_length=None, *args, **kwargs):
+...         super(Person, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+...         if name_max_length:
+...             self.fields['first_name'].max_length = name_max_length
+...             self.fields['last_name'].max_length = name_max_length
+>>> f = Person(name_max_length=None)
+>>> f['first_name'].field.max_length, f['last_name'].field.max_length
+(30, 30)
+>>> f = Person(name_max_length=20)
+>>> f['first_name'].field.max_length, f['last_name'].field.max_length
+(20, 20)
+>>> f = Person(name_max_length=None)
+>>> f['first_name'].field.max_length, f['last_name'].field.max_length
+(30, 30)
+
 HiddenInput widgets are displayed differently in the as_table(), as_ul()
 and as_p() output of a Form -- their verbose names are not displayed, and a
 separate row is not displayed. They're displayed in the last row of the