Opened 15 years ago

Closed 15 years ago

#12045 closed (duplicate)

BooleanField with choices in ModelForm does not show selected value in MySQL

Reported by: jittat <jittat@…> Owned by: nobody
Component: Forms Version: dev
Severity: Keywords: ModelForm, MySQL, BooleanField
Cc: Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

From ticket #7190 BooleanField in MySQL would return 0 or 1. When it is used in ModelForm, this BooleanField will be rendered as TypedChoiceField using Select widget. A problem occurs when the field has choices.

How to reproduce:

  1. Create a model in MySQL with BooleanField with choices, e.g.,
    class MyModel(models.Model):
        is_working = models.BooleanField(
            choices=((False,"This doesn't work"),
                     (True,"This works!")))
    
  2. In ./manage.py shell, try the following:
    >>> from testbf.models import MyModel
    >>> m = MyModel()
    >>> m.is_working = True
    >>> m.save()
    >>> m.is_working
    True
    >>> n = MyModel.objects.all()[0]
    >>> n.is_working
    1
    >>> from django.forms import ModelForm
    >>> class MyModelForm(ModelForm):
    ...      class Meta:
    ...          model = MyModel
    ... 
    >>> f = MyModelForm(instance=n)
    >>> f.as_p()
    u'<p><label for="id_is_working">Is working:</label>
    <select name="is_working" id="id_is_working">\n
    <option value="False">This doesn&#39;t work</option>\n
    <option value="True">This works!</option>\n
    </select></p>'
    

The correct output should have attribute selected="selected" in <option value="True">

Code...

The code for checking selected value is in forms.widgets.Select.render_options.render_option is

        def render_option(option_value, option_label):
            option_value = force_unicode(option_value)
            selected_html = (option_value in selected_choices) and u' selected="selected"' or ''
            return u'<option value="%s"%s>%s</option>' % (
                escape(option_value), selected_html,
                conditional_escape(force_unicode(option_label)))

Now, the option_value is converted to unicode, and True is converted to u'True'. However, the choices in selected_choices is [u'1'] (because the value returned by BooleanField in MySQL is 1).

Therefore, the expression: (option_value in selected_choices) is false, and the selected="selected" is not included in the rendered html.

I have no idea how to patch it. There are too many places to start, as the value is passed from models.BooleanField to forms.BoundField and to Select widget in TypedChoiceField.

Change History (2)

comment:1 by jittat, 15 years ago

Version: 1.1SVN

comment:2 by Russell Keith-Magee, 15 years ago

Resolution: duplicate
Status: newclosed

Given the recent decision to reopen and fix #7190, I'm marking this a duplicate.

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