#7 New Form

* adds EditEcoAccountForm
* adds placeholders for some form fields
* changes comment card in detail view into rlp-grayish
* adds eco account detail view comment box
* removes unnecessary loading of dal scripts in view.html
* refactors generated identifier for data objects (10 digits to 6 uppercase letter-digit combination)
* improves generate_random_string() method by adding more options for generation of strings
* adds/updates translations

konova/forms.py

@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ class BaseForm(forms.Form):
 
     def add_placeholder_for_field(self, field: str, val):
         """
-        Adds a placeholder to a field after initialization
+        Adds a placeholder to a field after initialization without the need to redefine the form widget
 
         Args:
             field (str): Field name

konova/models.py

@@ -191,7 +191,9 @@ class BaseObject(BaseResource):
         curr_year = str(_now.year)
         rand_str = generate_random_string(
             length=definitions[self.__class__]["length"],
-            only_numbers=True,
+            use_numbers=True,
+            use_letters_lc=False,
+            use_letters_uc=True,
         )
         _str = "{}{}-{}".format(curr_month, curr_year, rand_str)
         return definitions[self.__class__]["template"].format(_str)

konova/utils/generators.py

@@ -9,14 +9,18 @@ import random
 import string
 
 
-def generate_random_string(length: int, only_numbers: bool = False) -> str:
+def generate_random_string(length: int, use_numbers: bool = False, use_letters_lc: bool = False, use_letters_uc: bool = False) -> str:
     """
     Generates a random string of variable length
     """
-    if only_numbers:
-        elements = string.digits
-    else:
-        elements = string.ascii_letters
+    elements = []
+    if use_numbers:
+        elements.append(string.digits)
+    if use_letters_lc:
+        elements.append(string.ascii_lowercase)
+    if use_letters_uc:
+        elements.append(string.ascii_uppercase)
 
+    elements = "".join(elements)
     ret_val = "".join(random.choice(elements) for i in range(length))
     return ret_val