FormsΒΆ

Hierarkey provides a form base class to manipulate values of a key-value store. You just define your form as you normally would:

from django import forms
from hierarkey.forms import HierarkeyForm

class MySettingsForm(HierarkeyForm):
    theme = forms.ChoiceField(
        choices=(('light', 'light'), ('dark', 'dark')
    )
    ...

You can use any form field that results in a data type that can be serialized and deserialized by hierarkey. This includes most form fields defined by Django and even custom types.

To save the data, you can call the save() method on the form. Note that the form takes two additional arguments: The object that you want to update the values for (i.e. a GlobalSettings object or a model instance) and the attribute_name the storage is located at. When using a class-based FormView, you could integrate it like this:

from django.views.generic import FormView

class MySettingsView(FormView):
    form_class = MySettingsForm

    def get_form_kwargs(self):
        kwargs = super().get_form_kwargs()
        kwargs['attribute_name'] = 'settings'
        kwargs['obj'] = User.objects.get(...)
        return kwargs

    def form_valid(self, form):
        form.save()
        return super().form_valid(form)

Note

Initial values for the form will be taken from the settings storage, i.e. from the given object and the global and hardcoded defaults. Initial values set directly on the form or field layer are not supported.