Django forms lose related data

Question

It appears that there's no way for me to get an ORM object with numerous select_related objects and create a Form and run my data through all the cleaning and additional validations I have.

I'm simply trying to reduce the number of queries that get executed, the form either takes an id and re-creates the object, or does not take advantage of the additional fields (I've tried using model_to_dict)

Is there anything I'm missing? How can I use select_related inside of a form?

Django 1.4

Answer 1

Do:

form = MyFormClass(instance=my_object)

Your form will need to be a ModelForm, see the docs for more information!