PolymorphicFormSetChild overrides form exclude

[Vayel]

Hi!

I have these models:

from django.db import models
from polymorphic.models import PolymorphicModel

class Author(models.Model):
    pass

class Book(PolymorphicModel):
    author = models.ForeignKey(Author, on_delete=models.CASCADE)

class SpecialBook(Book):
    pass

I want to make a formset to edit special books of a given author:

from django import forms
from polymorphic.formsets import polymorphic_modelformset_factory, PolymorphicFormSetChild

class SpecialBookForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        exclude = ("author",)

SpecialBookFormSet = polymorphic_modelformset_factory(Book, formset_children=(
    PolymorphicFormSetChild(SpecialBook, form=SpecialBookForm),
))

By doing so, the field author is not excluded. Indeed, due to this line, exclude is not None when passed to modelform_factory() here then form.Meta.exclude is overridden here.

What's the point of self.exclude = exclude or () here?

Thanks!

[j-antunes]

Hi! The original maintainer of this project is not longer actively working on it. I don't know enough of the project to be able to answer your question. If you think that's a bug, please feel free to open a PR, and run your changes against the unit tests.