Using TextChoices

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I’m using Django 4.2 and i was looking for a field to select form a given options. I came across TextChoises but its not showing up in my admin panel. Am i using it the right way?

models.py

class Gallery(models.Model):
    id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True)
    type = models.TextChoices("Image", "Video")
    title = models.CharField(max_length=100,null=True)
    file = models.FileField(upload_to='gallery/', null=True)

what i am trying to do is to have two options image or video to choose from.

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You can use choices attribute in your model fields like:

class MC:
    timing = (
        ('D', "Day"),
        ('W', "Week"),
        ('M', "Month")
    )

    gender = (
        (1, "Man"),
        (2, "Woman"),
        (3, "Agender"),
        (4, "Bigender"),
        (5, "Genderfluid"),
        (6, "Genderqueer"),
        (7, "Gender nonconfirming"),
        (8, "Gender questioning"),
        (9, "Gender variant"),
        (10, "Intersex"),
        (11, "Neutrois"),
        (12, "Nonbinary Man"),
    )

class ABC(models.Model):
    duration_type = models.CharField(choices=MC().timing, default='M', max_length=3)
    gender = models.SmallIntegerField(default=1, choices=MC.gender)

In the above example I’ve given different kinds of choices like with CharField and SmallIntegerField.

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Yes i get how to use choices with CharField but i wanted to try out or understand TextChoices.

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Okay, so take a look at this part of docs Model field reference | Django documentation | Django here you will see how models.TextChoices are being used.

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Also, according to your model the updated model from my end should be like this:

class Gallery(models.Model):
    class MediaType(models.TextChoices):
        IMAGE = 'Image'
        VIDEO = 'Video'

    id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True)
    type = models.CharField(max_length=5, choices=MediaType.choices)
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