wtforms Form class subclassing and field ordering

Question

I have a UserForm class:

class UserForm(Form):
    first_name = TextField(u\'First name\', [validators.Required()])
    last_name = TextField(u\'Last name\', [va         


        

Answer 1

To force an ordering on the form's fields you may use the following method:

from collections import OrderedDict

def order_fields(fields, order):
    return OrderedDict((k,fields[k]) for k in order)

And call it within your forms constructor as follows:

class FancyForm(Form, ParentClass1, ParentClass2...):
    x = TextField()
    y = TextField()
    z = TextField()

    _order = 'x y z'.split()


    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(FancyForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self._fields = order_fields(self._fields, 
                                    self._order + ParentClass1._order + ParentClass2._order)