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| author | Russell Keith-Magee <russell@keith-magee.com> | 2006-09-14 13:31:50 +0000 |
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| committer | Russell Keith-Magee <russell@keith-magee.com> | 2006-09-14 13:31:50 +0000 |
| commit | 45399b4b13928e7616d4d1b2e8859d6ef9a865c7 (patch) | |
| tree | 0037309db9431bcb08add387cd53ea7bc10d88fe /docs/forms.txt | |
| parent | 3c5782287efc197eccf556cf6915fc0d8b3e02bd (diff) | |
Updated documentation for ChangeManipulators to reflect use of flatten_data() rather than __dict__ to populate form data.
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@3758 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/forms.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/forms.txt b/docs/forms.txt index 67408f3c5d..d6ef6f791b 100644 --- a/docs/forms.txt +++ b/docs/forms.txt @@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ about editing an existing one? It's shockingly similar to creating a new one:: else: errors = {} # This makes sure the form accurate represents the fields of the place. - new_data = place.__dict__ + new_data = manipulator.flatten_data() form = forms.FormWrapper(manipulator, new_data, errors) return render_to_response('places/edit_form.html', {'form': form, 'place': place}) @@ -336,10 +336,10 @@ The only real differences are: * ``ChangeManipulator.original_object`` stores the instance of the object being edited. - * We set ``new_data`` to the original object's ``__dict__``. This makes - sure the form fields contain the current values of the object. - ``FormWrapper`` does not modify ``new_data`` in any way, and templates - cannot, so this is perfectly safe. + * We set ``new_data`` based upon ``flatten_data()`` from the manipulator. + ``flatten_data()`` takes the data from the original object under + manipulation, and converts it into a data dictionary that can be used + to populate form elements with the existing values for the object. * The above example uses a different template, so create and edit can be "skinned" differently if needed, but the form chunk itself is completely |