Could anybody share how and where does Django store the mapping between datatypes like number, string, boolean and UI components like textfield, datepicker, radio button, checkbox etc.
I am trying to build a Django-like admin UI for a Spring-boot application. One of the parts is to create a mapping between datatypes and UI components.
Also, I believe we must have a tag django-internals on Stackoverflow.
Following seems to be one of the places where Django does the datatype to UI component mapping
https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/forms/fields.py
Python is not Java, and Django is not Spring. Django doesn't think in terms of UI types, and doesn't store mappings.
To interact with data in Django, you create a form. ModelForms know how to create a set of form fields for each field in the model. They do this by calling the formfield method of each model field.
Each form field, in turn, is associated with a default widget, which determines how that field is displayed in a form.
Both field and widget can be overridden in the form definition.
(Note this is not a "Django internal", but the documented way to use the framework.)
