Do django-select2 form fields default to required=False?

[engin-can]

Hi, I noticed my select2 fields don't have the required attribute in HTML? According to Django's form documentation the default required value is True. Any idea if select2 is defaulting to False?

class CustomFroalaEditor(FroalaEditor):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(CustomFroalaEditor, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

    def render(self, name, value, attrs=None, renderer=None):
        html = super(FroalaEditor, self).render(name, value, attrs)
        return mark_safe(html)


class NewBlaForm(forms.ModelForm):
    company = forms.ChoiceField(widget=forms.Select(attrs={'id': 'nbc__name-dropdown', 'class': 'form-control'}))
    product = forms.ChoiceField(widget=forms.Select(attrs={'id': 'nbp__name-dropdown', 'class': 'form-control', 'disabled': 'disabled'}))

    class Meta:
        model = Bla
        fields = ('product')

[Johannes Maron]

Hi @fbengo thanks for reaching out. That's a good questions. This package does not alter the default behavior in Django. Therefore, by default all fields are required.

Select2 works a bit different from your regular select-tag in HTML. We actually set a special data-attribute to make the selection required. We use whatever was passed by the form or whenever else the widget was initialized. See also:

django-select2/django_select2/forms.py

Lines 76 to 80 in 2bb6f3a

 if self.is_required: 
     attrs.setdefault('data-allow-clear', 'false') 
 else: 
     attrs.setdefault('data-allow-clear', 'true') 
     attrs.setdefault('data-placeholder', '')