Question

I have a form (forms.Form) that automatically generates the choices for its own choicefield as such:

class UserForm(forms.Form):
    def generate_choices():
        from vn.account.models import UserProfile
        up = UserProfile.objects.filter(user__isnull=True)
        choices = [('0','--')]
        choices += ([(s.id ,'%s %s (%s), username: %s, email: %s' % (s.first_name, s.last_name, s.company_name, s.username, s.email)) for s in up])
        return choices

    user = forms.ChoiceField(label=_('Select from interest form'), choices=generate_choices())

My problem is that this shows up as a select box (as intented) but its contents are cached somehow. New entries do not show up before i restart the dev server on my local pc, or apache on the remote server.

When is that piece of code evaluated? How can i make it so that it re-calculates the entries every time ?

PS. memchached and other sorts of caching are turned off.

Answer 1

I think you need to do this via the init so it is evaluate when form is called, something like

e.g.

def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
    super(UserForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
    from vn.account.models import UserProfile
    up = UserProfile.objects.filter(user__isnull=True)
    choices = [('0','--')]
    choices += ([(s.id ,'%s %s (%s), username: %s, email: %s' % (s.first_name, s.last_name,s.company_name, s.username, s.email)) for s in up])

    self.fields['user'].choices = choices