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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt | 16 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt b/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt index e2b57fe410..3d5bc746fe 100644 --- a/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt +++ b/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt @@ -299,6 +299,8 @@ to the ``error_messages`` dictionary of the ``ModelForm``’s inner ``Meta`` cla } } +.. _topics-modelform-save: + The ``save()`` method --------------------- @@ -333,11 +335,11 @@ doesn't validate -- i.e., if ``form.errors`` evaluates to ``True``. If an optional field doesn't appear in the form's data, the resulting model instance uses the model field :attr:`~django.db.models.Field.default`, if there is one, for that field. This behavior doesn't apply to fields that use -:class:`~django.forms.CheckboxInput` (or any custom widget with -``dont_use_model_field_default_for_empty_data=True``) since an unchecked -checkbox doesn't appear in the data of an HTML form submission. Use a custom -form field or widget if you're designing an API and want the default fallback -for a ``BooleanField``. +:class:`~django.forms.CheckboxInput` (or any custom widget whose +:meth:`~django.forms.Widget.value_omitted_from_data` method always returns +``False``) since an unchecked checkbox doesn't appear in the data of an HTML +form submission. Use a custom form field or widget if you're designing an API +and want the default fallback for a :class:`~django.db.models.BooleanField`. .. versionchanged:: 1.10.1 @@ -345,6 +347,10 @@ for a ``BooleanField``. :class:`~django.forms.CheckboxInput` which means that unchecked checkboxes receive a value of ``True`` if that's the model field default. +.. versionchanged:: 1.10.2 + + The :meth:`~django.forms.Widget.value_omitted_from_data` method was added. + This ``save()`` method accepts an optional ``commit`` keyword argument, which accepts either ``True`` or ``False``. If you call ``save()`` with ``commit=False``, then it will return an object that hasn't yet been saved to |
