EDIT: Using Django 1.3
I've built a Custom Widget to educate myself but I can't get past a problem where when the page is fetched Django says that:
'FooTestWidget' object has no attribute 'attrs'
I don't want to use the 'attrs' argument and I've set it to default to None (also tried an empty dictionary, eg {}) so I'm confused about why Django is complaining.
widgets.py
class FooTestWidget(Widget):
"""
A very silly widget to test I can do anything
"""
def __init__(self, attrs=None):
pass
def render(self, name, value, attrs=None):
tpl = Template(u"""<h1>This is here instead of a CharField</h1>""")
return mark_safe(tpl.substitute(colour=value))
admin.py
class UserAdminForm(ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = User
widgets = {
'name_family': FooTestWidget,
}
class UserAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
form = UserAdminForm
model.py
class User(models.Model):
id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True, db_column='USE_ID')
name_given = models.CharField(max_length=200, db_column='USE_NAME_GIVEN')
name_family = models.CharField(max_length=200, db_column='USE_NAME_FAMILY')
WORKING VERSION AFTER HELP FROM DANIEL
Here's a working version of widgets.py after taking on board what Daniel explained in his answer and then me making one or two other small changes (which weren't assocated with the problem described here but which stopped it working as it should). This version now works as I expected it to:
from datetime import date
import re
from django.forms.widgets import Widget, Select
from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe
from django.forms import widgets
from django.template.base import Template
__all__ = ('FooTestWidget',)
RE_DATE = re.compile(r'(\d{4})-(\d\d?)-(\d\d?)$')
class FooTestWidget(Widget):
"""
A very silly widget to test I can do anything
"""
#def __init__(self, attrs={}):
# pass
def render(self, name, value, attrs=None):
sout = u"""<h1>This is here instead of a CharField</h1>"""
return mark_safe(sout)
