A Django form for entering a 0 to n email addresses
- by Erik
I have a Django application with some fairly common models in it: UserProfile and Organization. A UserProfile or an Organization can both have 0 to n emails, so I have an Email model that has a GenericForeignKey. UserProfile and Organization Models both have a GenericRelation called emails that points back to the Email model (summary code provided below).
The question: what is the best way to provide an Organization form that allows a user to enter organization details including 0 to n email addresses? My Organization create view is a Django class-based view. I'm leading towards creating a dynamic form and an enabling it with Javascript to allow the user to add as many email addresses as necessary. I will render the form with django-crispy-forms.
I've thought about doing this with a formset embedded within the form, but this seems like overkill for email addresses. Embedding a formset in a form delivered by a class-based view is cumbersome too.
Note that the same issue occurs with the Organization fields phone_numbers and locations.
emails.py:
from django.db import models
from parent_mixins import Parent_Mixin
class Email(Parent_Mixin,models.Model):
email_type = models.CharField(blank=True,max_length=100,null=True,default=None,verbose_name='Email Type')
email = models.EmailField()
class Meta:
app_label = 'core'
organizations.py:
from emails import Email
from locations import Location
from phone_numbers import Phone_Number
from django.contrib.contenttypes import generic
from django.db import models
class Organization(models.Model):
active = models.BooleanField()
duns_number = models.CharField(blank=True,default=None,null=True,max_length=9) # need to validate this
emails = generic.GenericRelation(Email,content_type_field='parent_type',object_id_field='parent_id')
legal_name = models.CharField(blank=True,default=None,null=True,max_length=200)
locations = generic.GenericRelation(Location,content_type_field='parent_type',object_id_field='parent_id')
name = models.CharField(blank=True,default=None,null=True,max_length=200)
organization_group = models.CharField(blank=True,default=None,null=True,max_length=200)
organization_type = models.CharField(blank=True,default=None,null=True,max_length=200)
phone_numbers = generic.GenericRelation(Phone_Number,content_type_field='parent_type',object_id_field='parent_id')
taxpayer_id_number = models.CharField(blank=True,default=None,null=True,max_length=9) # need to validate this
class Meta:
app_label = 'core'
parent_mixins.py
from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType
from django.contrib.contenttypes import generic
from django.db import models
class Parent_Mixin(models.Model):
parent_type = models.ForeignKey(ContentType,blank=True,null=True)
parent_id = models.PositiveIntegerField(blank=True,null=True)
parent = generic.GenericForeignKey('parent_type', 'parent_id')
class Meta:
abstract = True
app_label = 'core'
