I have a Django model like:
class hotel(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=60)
city = models.ForeignKey('city', on_delete=models.DO_NOTHING)
state = models.ForeignKey('state', on_delete=models.DO_NOTHING)
country = models.ForeignKey('country', on_delete=models.DO_NOTHING)
def __str__(self):
return self.name
class Meta:
verbose_name_plural = "hotels"
class city(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=60)
state = models.ForeignKey('state', on_delete=models.DO_NOTHING)
def __str__(self):
return self.name
class Meta:
verbose_name_plural = "cities"
class state(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=60)
country = models.ForeignKey('country', on_delete=models.DO_NOTHING)
def __str__(self):
return self.name
class Meta:
verbose_name_plural = "states"
class country(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=60)
code = models.CharField(max_length=160)
def __str__(self):
return self.name
class Meta:
verbose_name_plural = "countries"
And the ModelForm like:
class Hotel(ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = hotel
fields = '__all__'
[EDIT] When creating form object from Hotel ModelForm, Django automatically fills values of foreignkey fields. I want to stop that.
For example:
form = Hotel()
(Django auto-populates city, state and country values)
I want my Django template to return all country values in dropdown, but not for state and city dropdowns (so I want state and city dropdowns to remain empty in Django template). How can I do that?
PS - The purpose to do this is to load country values first, and as per the user selection of a country, I will load state and then cities accordingly.
You can override the choices either in the form __init__
method or you can use a little trick with setting choices just after the field has been defined
class Hotel(ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = hotel
fields = '__all__'
# Like this
state = forms.ModelChoiceField(state.objects.all())
state.choices = []
city = forms.ModelChoiceField(city.objects.all())
city.choices = []
# Or like this...
def __init__(self, data=None, *args, **kwargs):
super().__init__(data=data, *args, **kwargs)
if not data:
self.fields['state'].queryset = state.objects.none()
self.fields['city'].queryset = state.objects.none()