Question

I’m trying to make updates to a model using Ajax/POST. I’d like to be able to just send the field being updated and not all fields in the Form. But this seems to cause the form to be invalid. Is there a good way to do this?

eg:

class Video(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    type = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    owner =  models.ForeignKey(User, related_name='videos')
    ...
    #Related m2m fields
    ....

class VideoForm(modelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = Video
        fields = ('name', 'type', 'owner')

class VideoCreate(CreateView):
    template_name = 'video_form.html'
    form_class = VideoForm
    model = Video

When updating the name I’d like to send a POST with this data

{'name': 'new name'} 

as opposed to

{'name': 'new name', 'type':'existing type', 'owner': 'current owner'}

And likewise for updating type.

Is there a good way to do this?

Answer 1

Why don’t you simply create a form — say, AjaxUpdateNameForm — and then use django-ajax-validation to handle ajax requests?