GenericIPAddressField - Django Forms

GenericIPAddressField in Django Forms is a text field, for input of IP Addresses. It is field containing either an IPv4 or an IPv6 address. The default widget for this input is TextInput. It normalizes to a Python string. It validates that the given value is a valid IP address. 

GenericIPAddressField takes following optional arguments:

• protocol :- Limits valid inputs to the specified protocol. Accepted values are both (default), IPv4 or IPv6. Matching is case insensitive.
• unpack_ipv4 :- Unpacks IPv4 mapped addresses like ::ffff:192.0.2.1. If this option is enabled that address would be unpacked to 192.0.2.1. Default is disabled. Can only be used when protocol is set to 'both'.

Syntax

field_name = forms.GenericIPAddressField(**options)

Django form GenericIPAddressField Explanation

Illustration of GenericIPAddressField using an Example. Consider a project named geeksforgeeks having an app named geeks.

Refer to the following articles to check how to create a project and an app in Django.

• How to Create a Basic Project using MVT in Django?
• How to Create an App in Django ?

Enter the following code into forms.py file of geeks app. 

Add the geeks app to INSTALLED_APPS 

Now to render this form into a view we need a view and a URL mapped to that URL. Let's create a view first in views.py of geeks app, 

Here we are importing that particular form from forms.py and creating an object of it in the view so that it can be rendered in a template. Now, to initiate a Django form you need to create home.html where one would be designing the stuff as they like. Let's create a form in home.html. 

Finally, a URL to map to this view in urls.py 

Let's run the server and check what has actually happened, Run

Python manage.py runserver

👁 django-forms-GenericIPAddressField
 

Thus, an geeks_field GenericIPAddressField is created by replacing "_" with " ". It is a field to input of IP addresses.

How to use GenericIPAddressField ?

GenericIPAddressField is used for input of IP address in the database. One can input User IP address, IPv4, etc. Till now we have discussed how to implement GenericIPAddressField but how to use it in the view for performing the logical part. To perform some logic we would need to get the value entered into the field into a python string instance. To get GitHub code of working GenericIPAddressField, click here In views.py, 

Now let's try entering some other data into the field.

 👁 django-forms-GenericIPaddressField1

You can clearly see it is asking for entering a valid IP address. Let's try entering valid IP address now.

 👁 django-forms-genericipaddressfield
 

Now this data can be fetched using corresponding request dictionary. If method is GET, data would be available in request.GET and if post, request.POST correspondingly. In above example we have the value in temp which we can use for any purpose. You can check that data is converted to a python string instance in geeks_field. 

👁 genericipaddressfield-django-forms

Core Field Arguments

Core Field arguments are the arguments given to each field for applying some constraint or imparting a particular characteristic to a particular Field. For example, adding an argument required = False to GenericIPAddressField will enable it to be left blank by the user. Each Field class constructor takes at least these arguments. Some Field classes take additional, field-specific arguments, but the following should always be accepted: 

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Field Options	Description
required	By default, each Field class assumes the value is required, so to make it not required you need to set required=False
label	The label argument lets you specify the “human-friendly” label for this field. This is used when the Field is displayed in a Form.
label_suffix	The label_suffix argument lets you override the form’s label_suffix on a per-field basis.
widget	The widget argument lets you specify a Widget class to use when rendering this Field. See Widgets for more information.
help_text	The help_text argument lets you specify descriptive text for this Field. If you provide help_text, it will be displayed next to the Field when the Field is rendered by one of the convenience Form methods.
error_messages	The error_messages argument lets you override the default messages that the field will raise. Pass in a dictionary with keys matching the error messages you want to override.
validators	The validators argument lets you provide a list of validation functions for this field.
localize	The localize argument enables the localization of form data input, as well as the rendered output.
disabled.	The disabled boolean argument, when set to True, disables a form field using the disabled HTML attribute so that it won’t be editable by users.