Optionnal: have icon in message to precise status

[GayLaurent]

It will be nice to have, in optionnal, an icon associate for each message.
This icon will be associate to a status like "question", "info", "error", "resolved", ...

[DylannCordel]

Hi @GayLaurent

It's a specific need you can resolve with a OneToOneFied (it's non tested code but you'll get the main idea) :

In your models.py :

from django.db import models
from pybb.models import Topic

class TopicExtender(models.Model):
    TYPE_CHOICES = (
        (TYPE_CLASSIC, ''),
    )
    topic = models.OneToOneField(
        Topic,
        on_delete=models.CASCADE,
        primary_key=True,
    )
    type = models.CharField(
        choices=TYPE_CHOICES, 
        default=TYPE_CLASSIC
    )
    closed = models.BooleanField()

In your forms.py :

from pybb.forms import PostForm
from .models import TopicExtender

class ExtendedTopicForm(PostForm):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(ExtendedTopicForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        if not self.topic and self.forum:
            self.is_new_topic = True
            # add you new fields here

    def save(self, commit=True):
        super(ExtendedTopicForm, self).save(commit)
        if self.is_new_topic:
            self.topic_extender = TopicExtender(topic=self.topic)
            # assign your data here
            if commit:
                self.topic_extender.save()
            

In your views.py :

from pybb.views import AddPostView
from .forms import ExtendedTopicForm

class ExtendedAddPostView(AddPostView):
    post_form_class = ExtendedTopicForm

    def form_valid(self, form):
        response = super(ExtendedAddPostView, self).form_valid(form)
        # currently, you must check if response is a success (redirect) because 
        # form.save(commit=True) is not called in the super. So you must save your instance here.
        # Maybe we could add a `save_instances` method in `AddPostView` to make 
        # this type of code easier
        if hasattr(form, 'topic_extender') and isinstance(response, HttpResponseRedirect):
            topic_extender.save()
        return response

In your project's url.py, override the add_topic URL to use your own view.

If someone want to test this and create a PR to add this example in the doc, I think it would be useful for people. What do you think about it @lampslave and @skolsuper ?