Return MSFList, not plain list, from form field

multiselectfield/db/fields.py

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 from django.core import exceptions
 
 from ..forms.fields import MultiSelectFormField, MinChoicesValidator, MaxChoicesValidator
-from ..utils import get_max_length
+from ..utils import MSFList, get_max_length
 from ..validators import MaxValueMultiFieldValidator
 
 if sys.version_info < (3,):
@@ -46,21 +46,6 @@ def wrapper(cls):
     return wrapper
 
 
-class MSFList(list):
-
-    def __init__(self, choices, *args, **kwargs):
-        self.choices = choices
-        super(MSFList, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
-
-    def __str__(msgl):
-        msg_list = [msgl.choices.get(int(i)) if i.isdigit() else msgl.choices.get(i) for i in msgl]
-        return u', '.join([string_type(s) for s in msg_list])
-
-    if sys.version_info < (3,):
-        def __unicode__(self, msgl):
-            return self.__str__(msgl)
-
-
 class MultiSelectField(models.CharField):
     """ Choice values can not contain commas. """
 
@@ -130,6 +115,7 @@ def formfield(self, **kwargs):
                     'label': capfirst(self.verbose_name),
                     'help_text': self.help_text,
                     'choices': self.choices,
+                    'flat_choices': self.flatchoices,
                     'max_length': self.max_length,
                     'max_choices': self.max_choices}
         if self.has_default():

multiselectfield/forms/fields.py

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 
 from django import forms
 
-from ..utils import get_max_length
+from ..utils import MSFList, get_max_length
 from ..validators import MaxValueMultiFieldValidator, MinChoicesValidator, MaxChoicesValidator
 
 
@@ -27,10 +27,14 @@ def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
         self.min_choices = kwargs.pop('min_choices', None)
         self.max_choices = kwargs.pop('max_choices', None)
         self.max_length = kwargs.pop('max_length', None)
+        self.flat_choices = kwargs.pop('flat_choices')
         super(MultiSelectFormField, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
         self.max_length = get_max_length(self.choices, self.max_length)
         self.validators.append(MaxValueMultiFieldValidator(self.max_length))
         if self.max_choices is not None:
             self.validators.append(MaxChoicesValidator(self.max_choices))
         if self.min_choices is not None:
             self.validators.append(MinChoicesValidator(self.min_choices))
+
+    def to_python(self, value):
+        return MSFList(dict(self.flat_choices), super(MultiSelectFormField, self).to_python(value))

multiselectfield/utils.py

@@ -25,6 +25,21 @@
     string_type = string
 
 
+class MSFList(list):
+
+    def __init__(self, choices, *args, **kwargs):
+        self.choices = choices
+        super(MSFList, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+
+    def __str__(msgl):
+        msg_list = [msgl.choices.get(int(i)) if i.isdigit() else msgl.choices.get(i) for i in msgl]
+        return u', '.join([string_type(s) for s in msg_list])
+
+    if sys.version_info < (3,):
+        def __unicode__(self, msgl):
+            return self.__str__(msgl)
+
+
 def get_max_length(choices, max_length, default=200):
     if max_length is None:
         if choices: