New Feature: django.contrib.markup.fields.MarkupField

[James Turk]

I recently published a snippet of something I've wanted in Django for a long time, a MarkupField that handles conversion to HTML on save and an accessor that calls mark_safe.

My implementation is at ​http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1332/ (Credit where credit is due, I also borrowed the method of detecting which markup libraries are installed from a slightly less featured version ​http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1169/)

Jacob commented on Twitter that he'd like to see this as well and to submit a ticket.

I'll put together the appropriate fields.py / documentation / tests and should have a candidate patch up soon.

[dc]

I think it must be possible to use any custom markup with this field. Maybe not hardcode markup checks but accept markup func as arg for example?

[Alex Gaynor]

One thing I don't like about that implementation is the need to have several attributes on the model, just having a complex obj that stored all of them on 1 attr would be preferable I think.

[James Turk]

dc & Alex: I've replied to your critiques and opened up discussion on django-developers: ​http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_thread/thread/c9124d565c17f972

[James Turk]

markupfield implementation and markup docs changes (now with extra options)

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Milestone post-1.0 deleted

[James Turk]

I am now maintaining django-markupfield in a github repository at ​http://github.com/jamesturk/django-markupfield/ it is not the exact version debated on the list as I personally did not find that useful (though I do see how this version is too special of a case to fit into django core)

Should the design decision on this come down in favor of something akin to what I am now maintaining externally I would be more than happy to do the integration necessary to produce a patch that moves MarkupField into django.contrib.markup

[Carl Meyer]

I forgot about this during 1.2 feature proposal, but FWIW I have ​a fork of James' repo which I've simplified/modified to more or less match the API outlined by James and others in ​the django-dev thread. I'm using it happily as an external app and don't have any particular itch to see it in core, but if a MarkupField is wanted in core I'd be happy to transform it into a patch and make any needed changes.

[Carl Meyer]

Um, yeah. The first James there is James Turk, the second is James Bennett. Disambiguation FTW.

[Aymeric Augustin]

This has been stuck in DDN for a long time. It's a small amount of code and it would be a reasonable addition to django.contrib.markup.

[Claude Paroz]

contrib.markup has been deprecated (#18504) and will be removed in Django 1.6. Closing as obsolete.