"""Utility Widgets""" from itertools import groupby from django.forms.models import ModelChoiceField, ModelChoiceIterator class GroupedModelChoiceIterator(ModelChoiceIterator): """ModelChoiceField which groups objects by their verbose_name""" def __iter__(self): if self.field.empty_label is not None: yield ("", self.field.empty_label) queryset = self.queryset # Can't use iterator() when queryset uses prefetch_related() if not queryset._prefetch_related_lookups: queryset = queryset.iterator() # We can't use DB-level sorting as we sort by subclass queryset = sorted(queryset, key=lambda x: x._meta.verbose_name) for group, objs in groupby(queryset, key=lambda x: x._meta.verbose_name): yield (group, [self.choice(obj) for obj in objs]) class GroupedModelChoiceField(ModelChoiceField): """ModelChoiceField which groups objects by their verbose_name""" iterator = GroupedModelChoiceIterator