Could you add a test or two using the new argument? Specifically, interested in the base filter set defining some properties to be reused, fields and meta options: inheritance of meta options needs testing. Also we should doc this.

done

FTR: currently the Meta.fields attribute of the base filterset is always overwritten by the fields that is passed to the factory (which defaults to ALL_FIELDS) - that means if you want to provide use a custom filterset class together with custom field definitions, you would have to both provide a custom filtersetclass and pass the fields to the factory. It might be more usable if the fields argument of the factory got only used if the base filterset Meta class does not have one. Or if the fields argument of the factory is None, but that would break the method signature... maybe only set fields if fields is None and not hasattr(filterset.Meta, "fields")...

It's probably worth comparing how modelform_factory does it.

It's probably worth comparing how modelform_factory does it.

They are passing fields=None to the factory and then:

    attrs = {"model": model}
    if fields is not None:
        attrs["fields"] = fields

I can update the code accordingly, if its ok to change the fields argument default from ALL_FIELDS to None

They're subclassing the Meta class, so that defined options are inherited.

But yes, as long as we maintain the effective existing behaviour where fields wasn't passed, with no base FormSet class, then we should be able to adjust.

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ack, the Meta.fields in the passed filterset now trumps the fields

ack, the Meta.fields in the passed filterset now trumps the fields

Hm, scratch that, i pushed too fast, i'll have to rethink the logic...

Oke, I think I found an approach that should not lead to surprises: if the fields argument is not None it overrides everything. If it is None, the Meta.fields of the filterset argument is used, if it exists and is not None. If thats also not the case, fields is set to ALL_FIELDS

Updated in #1644