Formset Messages

Question

I want to be able to send a message using the new messages framework. Something along the lines of :

...
if formset.is_valid    
    return HttpResponseRedirect( some page )   
    messages.add_message(request,messages.INFO, '%i objects added') %formset.number_of_forms

But two questions:

1. Im not sure if i should put the messages before or after the render to response
2. Is there a method akin to number_of_forms

Answer 1

1. I don't see a render_to_response in your snippet, but not only should any calls to messages.add_message() go before any render_to_response() but it should also go before any return statement as you have in your snippet. If you put any code after a return statement it will never be executed.

2. In python the len() function is always used to count the number of objects in a list (or any type of iterator). So len(formset.forms) should give you the number of forms in the formset.