First I'd like to say that I think the autocomplete_light package is a nice, well maintained package but I am having some issues with it as a relative novice.
I upgraded my version of autocomplete_light using 'pip install django-autocomplete-light'.
As far as I was aware this shouldn't install v2 or the dev version of the project - reading from this link.
Checking the site-packages dir in my Virtual Env I've installed the following: django_autocomplete_light-2.0.0a8-py2.7.egg-info
Is there an alternative to check the version? For example can I do something like this?
python manage.py shell
import autocomplete_light
print autocomplete_light.VERSION
(which doesn't work)
My main problem is that after the upgrade I'm seeing the following error message in my django project:
'module' object has no attribute 'get_widgets_dict'
My forms.py looks like this:
from django.db import models
from django import forms
from django.forms import ModelForm
import autocomplete_light
from vehicle_admin_ac3.models import mycar
class mycarForm(autocomplete_light.ModelForm):
year = forms.DateField(widget=forms.TextInput(attrs=
{
'id':'datepicker'
}))
class Meta:
widgets = autocomplete_light.get_widgets_dict(mycar)
model = mycar
exclude = ['owner', 'uploaded']
I looked on the documentation which mentions why you should not use widget directly anymore but I didn't see a clear explanation how to fix my problem
I decided to download and install what I thought was the latest v2 test_project using the following commands:
AUTOCOMPLETE_LIGHT_VERSION="v2"
rm -rf autocomplete_light_env/
virtualenv autocomplete_light_env
source autocomplete_light_env/bin/activate
pip install -e git+git://github.com/yourlabs/django-autocomplete-light.git@$AUTOCOMPLETE_LIGHT_VERSION#egg=autocomplete_light
cd autocomplete_light_env/src/autocomplete-light/test_project
pip install -r requirements.txt
./manage.py runserver
The example at /non_admin/widget/add/ does what I want but when I check form.py for this exmaple it uses the same approach that I used previously.
from django import forms
import autocomplete_light
from models import Widget
# in the case of this example, we could just have:
# WidgetForm = autocomplete_light.modelform_factory(Widget)
# but we'll not use this shortcut
class WidgetForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
widgets = autocomplete_light.get_widgets_dict(Widget)
model = Widget
I'm quite confused now where I need to go to fix my code or to get a simple example for what I want to do. I'd appreciate any information or guidance.
pip install django-autocomplete-light
doesn't install v2Just try on a fresh virtualenv and you'll see that pip doesn't install alphas (all released v2s are alphas) by default:
You can
import autocomplete_light; print autocomplete_light.__path__
to check where python loads it from.Upgrading to v2
get_widgets_dict
was indeed removed from v2 because v2 has a better design which makes uses of form fields.You're extending
autocomplete_light.ModelForm
, you don't need anything else. Now you could setMeta.autocomplete_excludes
,Meta.autocomplete_fields
,Meta.autocomplete_names
if you wanted to overrideautocomplete_light.ModelForm
's default behaviour.FTR, upgrade docs are here: http://django-autocomplete-light.readthedocs.org/en/v2/1to2.html
You're picking examples from v1 and trying to apply them on v2 !
I can garantee that no example in the test_project of the v2 branch uses
get_widgets_dict
, it's been completely removed in favor of form fields which allow better validation flow and performance.Your problem is already solved
I bet that you have solved your problem by yourself, removing the call to
get_widgets_dict
by now. Particularely since it's in bold in the README: https://github.com/yourlabs/django-autocomplete-light/I'm sorry, I didn't think it would be so hard for users to follow... oh well I guess I'm still learning ;)