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A wizard that helps to control page flow.

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Django wizard uses Step classes to control page flow.

To create a wizard, you need a url route defined that is going to point to a view and take a step parameter, like this:

url(r'^(?P<step>[a-zA-Z]+)?$', views.my_view, name='new_wizard'),

That view then must instantiate the wizard passing it the url name, and a list of steps. Then the wizard’s handle_request method should be called and returned with the request and the current step name (From the url):

def my_view(request, step):
    Wizard('new_wizard', [
    ('StepOne', mysteps.StepOne),
    ('StepTwo', mysteps.StepTwo),
])
return wizard.handle_request(request, step)

The wizard also has a defaulted navigation_opts argument that can be passed in the __init__ navigation options are a dictionary with a key of a string that will map to a field in the Request, and the value is an int. These tell the wizard what direction to go and how far in which scenarios.

The defaults are:

  • wizard_save: 0

  • wizard_continue: 1

  • wizard_previous: -1

  • wizard_next: 1

The view can also set a few additional things on the wizard:

  • set_redirect_args(*args, **kwargs)
    • use this to tell the wizard what it needs to privode to django’s reverse function when doing redirects

  • set_step_init_args(*args, **kwargs)
    • use this to supply additional arguments to your step class __init__’s

  • set_common_template_args(dict)
    • use this to add stuff that will always be available in all of your wizard created templates

The wizard will trigger the following signals:

  • wizard.signals.wizard_pre_save

  • wizard.signals.wizard_post_save

  • wizard.signals.wizard_pre_display

  • wizard.signals.wizard_post_display

  • wizard.signals.wizard_pre_prereq

  • wizard.signals.wizard_post_prereq

A Step class is just an object that must define the following methods

  • display
    • only takes self as an argument and returns the object that should be passed to django’s template engine

  • save
    • only takes self as an argument and returns nothing

  • template
    • only takes self as an argument and must return the template object to be used by the wizard to render the response

    • IE: return loader.get_template(‘some_template_file.html’)

  • prereq
    • only takes self as an argument and can raise a wizard.PrereqMissing when an error occurs in the page flow

    • the __init__ accepts an optional step key, a request and a message

    • if the step key is provided, the wizard will redirect to that step

    • if a request and message are provided it will add the message to django’s messaging framework

  • SaveStepException is an exception that can be raised in the save method that the wizard know that the step could not be saved and needs to be repeated

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