Opened 18 years ago

Closed 18 years ago

#3455 closed (fixed)

Documentation for "choices" should mention "get_FOO_display"

Reported by: James Bennett Owned by: Jacob
Component: Documentation Version: dev
Severity: Keywords: choices get_FOO_display
Cc: Triage Stage: Ready for checkin
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

The documentation for the choices attribute on model fields mentions that choices should be a tuple of 2-tuples, including an actual value and a human-readable name, but documentation on how to retrieve the human-readable name of the selected choice from an instance of the model lives elsewhere, in the database API documentation, under the unintuitive name of get_FOO_display. This hinders a new user of Django trying to understand how best to make use of choices.

At the very least, the model documentation should include, under choices, a link to the get_FOO_display entry in the DB documentation for an explanation of how to get the human-readable name back out of a model instance. Ideally, we'd do that and come up with better titles for the sections on the various get_FOO_display/get_next_by_FOO/etc. methods.

Attachments (1)

3455.diff (792 bytes ) - added by James Bennett 18 years ago.
Patch pointing out get_FOO_display in "choices" docs

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Change History (5)

comment:1 by James Bennett, 18 years ago

Triage Stage: UnreviewedAccepted

by James Bennett, 18 years ago

Attachment: 3455.diff added

Patch pointing out get_FOO_display in "choices" docs

comment:2 by James Bennett, 18 years ago

Triage Stage: AcceptedReady for checkin

comment:3 by James Bennett, 18 years ago

Has patch: set

comment:4 by Jacob, 18 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

(In [4625]) Fixed #3455: added documentation of Model.get_FIELD_display(). Thanks, Ubernostrum.

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