Problem with Form with ForeignKey field

[Drew Ferguson]

Hi

Django 1.5

I have a model which includes a ForeignKey field defined likes this

class Document(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=25, unique=True,
null=False,blank=False)
target = models.CharField(max_length=12,
choices=TARGETS,default='report')
content = models.TextField(null=False, blank=False)
fieldlist = models.TextField(null=True, blank=True)
multitarget = models.BooleanField(default=True, null=False,blank=False)
template = models.ForeignKey('Template',null=True,blank=True,
related_name='documents')
animal = models.ForeignKey('Animal',null=True,blank=True,
related_name='+')

the Animal table is quite large (>3000 records)

When a form template is called, there are no input fields rendered, just a
"save" button

If the Animal field is suppressed in the form with

class Meta(object):
model = Document
exclude = ['animal',]

the form renders correctly with appropriate input fields

Could someone suggest how to track down what is causing the problem with
the Animal selector when it is being generated? Is there a data issue
perhaps?

Thanks
--
Drew

[Jonathan Pentecost]

Does it have anything to do with the related name of animal being `+`? I can't test this out just yet, but I don't THINK you can have a related_name as just `+`, I believe it needs to be a valid identifier.

[Tom Evans]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Jonathan Pentecost
<pentecos...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does it have anything to do with the related name of animal being `+`? I
> can't test this out just yet, but I don't THINK you can have a related_name
> as just `+`, I believe it needs to be a valid identifier.

'+' is perfectly valid for related_name, it means "do not create a
reverse relation".

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/ref/models/fields/#django.db.models.ForeignKey.related_name

Cheers

Tom