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ModelChoiceField with choice groups for recursive relationships

Author:
estecb
Posted:
January 20, 2014
Language:
Python
Version:
1.6
Score:
1 (after 1 ratings)

Note: must call within init() method, so you must do self.fields["field"] = ModelChoiseField(...). This is because I did not use a ModelChoiceIterator.

A subclass of ModelChoiceField which represents the tree level of each node when generating option labels. It's limited to one level of nesting, if you need more, you should consider the django-mptt package.

For example, where a form which used a ModelChoiceField:

category = ModelChoiceField(queryset=Category.objects.all())

...would result in a select with the following options:

---------
Root 1
Root 2
Child 1.1
Child 1.2
Child 2.1

Using a NestedModelChoiceField instead:

category = NestedModelChoiceField(queryset=Category.objects.all(),
                                  related_name='category_set',
                                  parent_field='parent_id',
                                  label_field='title')

...would result in a select with the following options:

Root 1
--- Child 1.1
--- Child 1.2
Root 2
--- Child 2.1

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#-*- coding: utf-8 -*-

from django import forms
from django.utils.html import conditional_escape, mark_safe
from django.utils.encoding import smart_text


class NestedModelChoiceField(forms.ModelChoiceField):
    """A ModelChoiceField that groups parents and childrens"""
    def __init__(self, related_name, parent_field, label_field, *args, **kwargs):
        """
        @related_name: related_name or "FOO_set"
        @parent_field: ForeignKey('self') field, use 'name_id' to save some queries
        @label_field: field for obj representation

        ie: 
        class MyModel(models.Model):
            parent = models.ForeignKey('self', null=True, blank=True)
            title = models.CharField()
        
        field = NestedModelChoiceField(queryset=MyModel.objects.all(),
                                       related_name='mymodel_set',
                                       parent_field='parent_id',
                                       label_field='title')
        """
        super(NestedModelChoiceField, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.related_name = related_name
        self.parent_field = parent_field
        self.label_field = label_field
        self._populate_choices()

    def _populate_choices(self):
        # This is *hackish* but simpler than subclassing ModelChoiceIterator
        choices = []
        kwargs = {self.parent_field: None, }
        queryset = self.queryset.filter(**kwargs)\
            .prefetch_related(self.related_name)

        for parent in queryset:
            choices.append((self.prepare_value(parent), self.label_from_instance(parent)))
            choices.extend([(self.prepare_value(children), self.label_from_instance(children))
                            for children in getattr(parent, self.related_name).all()])

        self.choices = choices

    def label_from_instance(self, obj):
        level_indicator = ""
        if getattr(obj, self.parent_field):
            level_indicator = "--- "

        return mark_safe(level_indicator + conditional_escape(smart_text(getattr(obj, self.label_field))))

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