Opened 16 years ago

Closed 16 years ago

Last modified 16 years ago

#9765 closed (worksforme)

admin: Inline saves extras when model has choices and a default choice

Reported by: Roland van Laar Owned by: nobody
Component: contrib.admin Version: 1.0
Severity: Keywords: admin inline choices save
Cc: rick@… roland@… Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

When having defined choices and a default such as:

Class Node:
    status = models.CharField(max_length=10, choices=STATUS_CHOICES, default=1) 
    another_field = models.CharField(max_length=10)

and in the admin:

class NodeInline(admin.TabularInline):                                                                   
    model = Node                                                               
    extra = 2 

Pressing save will try to save all the extra fields as well even though no changes in the fields of the extras were made.
This leads to validation errors of the unfilled entries.
The admin should know that nothing has changed and not try to save extra inline field that weren't edited.

Change History (2)

comment:1 by Karen Tracey, 16 years ago

Resolution: worksforme
Status: newclosed

Admin tries to save new entries when the submitted values differ from the initial ones. I'm guessing there's something wrong with your default= specification, but I'm not sure what since you didn't include your definition of STATUS_CHOICES -- hmm, since it's a char field perhaps it ought to be '1' instead of 1. At any rate I know from experience this does work in admin, so there is something wrong with how you have specified it. What is coming back from the submitted form differs from the initial value you have specified, and that is why admin tries to save new entries.

comment:2 by Roland van Laar, 16 years ago

You are correct.

My status choices were:

STATUS_CHOICES = (
       ('up', 'up'),
       ('dw', 'down'),
       ('pl', 'planned'),
)

It should indeed be a character, instead of an integer. It works when I change default to 'up'.

Class Node(models.Model):
    status = models.CharField(max_length=10, choices=STATUS_CHOICES, default='up')
    another_field = models.CharField(max_length=10)
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