Product Detail Page - The Variant Form

[Joshua Wedekind]

Hello,

I am modifying the product detail page to suit our needs. Specifically, we need to modify the variant selection form to involve more than a single dropdown with an attributes summary list.

I.e. Instead of this UI:

Variant*

-- [ Color: Blue, Size: XL, Style: Plain ]

-- [ Color: Red, Size L, Style: Fancy   ]

Have this UI

Color*

-- [ Blue ]

-- [ Red ]

Size*

-- [ L   ]

-- [ XL ]

Style*

-- [ Plain   ]

-- [ Fancy ]

I realize this will involve some frontend JavaScript validation to make certain people don't select unavailable product combinations (e.g. maybe the Red isn't available in Plain, etc.). But I'm a JS expert, and really just need help with some way to get the data on the page.

It appears to me that oscar/apps/basket/forms.py > AddToBasketForm() is the Form to modify.
( link: https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/blob/1.0.1/oscar/apps/basket/forms.py#L134 ) 

And specifically, it looks like I need to modify this method: _create_parent_product_fields(self, product)

( link: https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/blob/1.0.1/oscar/apps/basket/forms.py#L154 )

I'm assuming this is a fairly common task. Are there any best practices, or examples? Perhaps someone could link me to there GitHub repo?

Thanks,
~Josh Wedekind

[Joshua Wedekind]

Ok. Maybe this isn't a fairly common task. Lol. 

[Maik Hoepfel]

Hi Joshua,

Sorry for being slow to reply. I think all Oscar core people are quite flat out at the moment.
Have a dig through the PRs, I think there is one where something similar is done. What you describe sounds sane. If you run into any trouble, grab me and I'll try to help.

Cheers,

Maik

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[Joshua Wedekind]

No worries, and no need to apologize. I think I've determined a solution for our specific purposes. 

Thanks.

[John P]

Here's the open issue on github: https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/issues/675

It looks like many people (myself included) have tried to solve this problem. The code I posted on that issue was an early attempt, and has since been abandoned.

John