[Question] Is there a way to get the display instead of the value for a field with a choices parameter associated with it?

Hello, everyone.

In the following code:

class Model(db.Model):
    field = pw.Charfield(
        choices=[1, 'foo']
    )

    def __unidoce__(self):
        return self.<api call I don't know about>

I would like to print foo instead of 1. The ORM implements a way to achieve this?

Thanks in advance.

[coleifer]

It’s just Python, there’s no magic there. One easy way to accomplish this is to write something like this:

class Tweet(Model):
    STATUS_CHOICES = (
        (0, 'Draft'),
        (1, 'Published'),
        (9, 'Deleted'))
    status = IntegerField(choices=STATUS_CHOICES)

    def get_status_label(self):
        return dict(self.STATUS_CHOICES)[self.status]

[pavelik]

Ok, your solution works. Before it I have tried:

{% for order in orders %}
  {# status column is populated with the status value, so we can use the helper method to get label #}
  {{ order.id }} {{ order.status.get_status_label() }}
{% endfor %}

…but this not work. Your answer works as I expected.

Thank you very much and thanks for your work on peewee.