Re: A problem with a solution, but is it the right one?

That sounds very interesting, Jeff - please post the link here.

On Jan 20, 3:47 pm, Jeff Heard <jefferson.r.he...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, I started doing that after I posted...  Thanks for the advice.  I'll
> be posting this code up on GitHub in a few days, as it's part of a
> reasonably complete implementation for Django of ISO 19142, Open Geospatial
> Consortium's Web Feature Service.
>
> -- Jeff
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> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 7:30 AM, francescortiz <francescor...@gmail.com>wrote:
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> > I would pass bound data instead of calling from_request:
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> >https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/forms/api/#ref-forms-api-bo...
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> > This way you don't have to worry about forms logic, but just about
> > filling the default data.
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> > Francesc
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> > On Jan 18, 8:42 pm, Jeff Heard <jefferson.r.he...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > My basic problem is this: I have multiple kinds of requests that come in,
> > > and some of them share parameters and valid values and default values. I
> > > cannot expect my users to pass all form values on the URL line, but
> > > unpassed parameters must be set to appropriate defaults, not merely None.
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> > > These shared parameter sets are broken out into separate RequestForm
> > > classes, but I also wanted to put the parsing and default values into
> > those
> > > classes. So I came up with the "from_request" method, which I put into
> > each
> > > RequestForm subclass and created a class method called "create" in
> > > RequestForm that class every class in cls.mro()'s from_request method
> > > independently, then calls .clean() on the form to validate it.
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> > > Another caveat is that I must shadow the request.GET dictionary with a
> > > case-insensitive dictionary, which I take care of in the
> > > django.views.generic.View.dispatch() method.
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> > > The code for my proposed solution is here:
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> > >http://dpaste.com/hold/689872/
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> > > Does this make sense to people?  Sorry to kind of flood the list with
> > this
> > > problem all day in different forms, but i think I'm close to having
> > > something I like.
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> > > -- Jeff
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