Rendering a drop down box in Django using ModelChoiceField

Submitted by viksit on Wed, 08/12/2009 - 22:14
Usually, if you were to use something like,
class testform(forms.Form):
  n = forms.ModelChoiceField(queryset=Models.objects.filter(id=32773), empty_label="All")
you'll end up with a drop down box populated with "M objects" rather than a field from the model. Instead, this works better,
class vModelChoiceField(forms.ModelChoiceField):
  def label_from_instance(self, obj):
    return "%s" % obj.name

class testform(forms.Form):
  n = vModelChoiceField(queryset=Models.objects.filter(id=32773), empty_label="All")

t = testform()
print t
And you're done!