Not a Valid Choice for Dynamic Select Field WTFORMS

dynamicSELECTFIELD

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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13964152/not-a-valid-choice-for-dynamic-select-field-wtforms

I currently am creating a dynamic select field using WTFORMS, however it never submits and fails the validation with the following error.

Not a valid choice
My Field is created like this:

area = SelectField()
and in the view, i am grabbing the options from the db like so:

form = MytestForm()
form.area.choices = [(a.id, a.name) for a in Area.objects.all()]


My guess is that Area.id is a int - when data comes back from the client it is treated as a string by WTForms unless a callable is passed to the coerce keyword argument of the wtforms.fields.SelectField constructor:

area = SelectField(coerce=int)
Alternately, if you are using SQLAlchemy you could use wtforms.ext.sqlalchemy.fields.QuerySelectField (wtforms_sqlalchemy if you are using WTForms 3+):

area = QuerySelectField(query_factory=Area.objects.all,
                            get_pk=lambda a: a.id,
                            get_label=lambda a: a.name)