ModelForm changing default field for ForeingKey

[Jonas Geiregat]

Hello,

I'm creating a subset of a ModelForm.

class FavArtistForm(ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = FavArtist
fields = ('artist',)
widgets = {
'artist': CharField(),
}

The field artist is of the type ForeignKey which is by default represented by django as a select tag.
I'd rather have the user enter their own value, so I tried to change it to the CharField field.
This doesn't work.

I'm receiving the following error: AttributeError: 'CharField' object has no attribute 'is_hidden'

Is changing the default representation of a ForeignKey field not allowed in django or am I missing something ?

Regards,

Jonas.

[Daniel Roseman]

The problem has nothing to do with foreign keys. It's simply that you're trying to change a widget, but you have used a Field type instead of a widget type. Use this instead:

        widgets = { 
            'artist': TextInput(),
        }   

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DR.

[Ymir Camilo Acosta Rodriguez]

Thank you Daniel, it works for me. ;)