mongodbforms 0.2.1

Normal documents

To use mongodbforms with normal documents replace djangos forms with mongodbform forms.

```python from mongodbforms import DocumentForm

class BlogForm(DocumentForm) … ```

Embedded documents

For embedded documents use EmbeddedDocumentForm. The Meta-object of the form has to be provided with an embedded field name. The embedded object is appended to this. The form constructor takes a couple of additional arguments: The document the embedded document gets added to and an optional position argument.

If no position is provided the form adds a new embedded document to the list if the form is saved. To edit an embedded document stored in a list field the position argument is required. If you provide a position and no instance to the form the instance is automatically loaded using the position argument.

If the embedded field is a plain embedded field the current object is simply overwritten.

````python # forms.py from mongodbforms import EmbeddedDocumentForm

class MessageForm(EmbeddedDocumentForm): class Meta: document = Message embedded_field_name = ‘messages’

fields = ['subject', 'sender', 'message',]

Form field generation

Because the fields on mongoengine documents have no notion of form fields mongodbform uses a generator class to generate the form field for a db field, which is not explicitly set.

To use your own field generator you can either set a generator for your whole project using MONGODBFORMS_FIELDGENERATOR in settings.py or you can use the formfield_generator option on the form’s Meta class.

The default generator is defined in mongodbforms/fieldgenerator.py and should make it easy to override form fields and widgets. If you set a generator on the document form you can also pass two dicts field_overrides and widget_overrides to __init__. For a list of valid keys have a look at MongoFormFieldGenerator.

````python # settings.py