graphene-django/docs/form-mutations.rst

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Integration with Django forms
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Graphene-Django comes with mutation classes that will convert the fields on Django forms into inputs on a mutation.
*Note: the API is experimental and will likely change in the future.*
DjangoFormMutation
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.. code:: python
from graphene_django.forms.mutation import DjangoFormMutation
class MyForm(forms.Form):
name = forms.CharField()
class MyMutation(DjangoFormMutation):
class Meta:
form_class = MyForm
``MyMutation`` will automatically receive an ``input`` argument. This argument should be a ``dict`` where the key is ``name`` and the value is a string.
DjangoModelFormMutation
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``DjangoModelFormMutation`` will pull the fields from a ``ModelForm``.
.. code:: python
from graphene_django.forms.mutation import DjangoModelFormMutation
class Pet(models.Model):
name = models.CharField()
class PetForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Pet
fields = ('name',)
# This will get returned when the mutation completes successfully
class PetType(DjangoObjectType):
class Meta:
model = Pet
class PetMutation(DjangoModelFormMutation):
pet = Field(PetType)
class Meta:
form_class = PetForm
``PetMutation`` will grab the fields from ``PetForm`` and turn them into inputs. If the form is valid then the mutation
will lookup the ``DjangoObjectType`` for the ``Pet`` model and return that under the key ``pet``. Otherwise it will
return a list of errors.
You can change the input name (default is ``input``) and the return field name (default is the model name lowercase).
.. code:: python
class PetMutation(DjangoModelFormMutation):
class Meta:
form_class = PetForm
input_field_name = 'data'
return_field_name = 'my_pet'
Form validation
---------------
Form mutations will call ``is_valid()`` on your forms.
If the form is valid then the class method ``perform_mutate(form, info)`` is called on the mutation. Override this method
to change how the form is saved or to return a different Graphene object type.
If the form is *not* valid then a list of errors will be returned. These errors have two fields: ``field``, a string
containing the name of the invalid form field, and ``messages``, a list of strings with the validation messages.