Error when trying to change the name of a meal

[JeanFrancoisFournier]

Expected Behaviour

Through the Admin, We should be able to change name of any ingredients, components (dishes&recipes) and restricted items (restriction categories).

Actual Behaviour

When trying to rename one, we got this error message:

Request Method:	POST
http://localhost:8000/admin/meal/component/1619/change/
1.11.17
TooManyFieldsSent
The number of GET/POST parameters exceeded settings.DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS.
/usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/http/multipartparser.py in parse, line 181
/usr/local/bin/python
3.5.6
['/code/src', '/usr/local/lib/python35.zip', '/usr/local/lib/python3.5', '/usr/local/lib/python3.5/plat-linux', '/usr/local/lib/python3.5/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages']
Thu, 7 Feb 2019 15:15:50 -0500

[JeanFrancoisFournier]

The easy work around to this was to delete the Component and recreate it with the new name. Annoying but efficient.

[manumilou]

Django has an arbitrary limit on fields than can be submitted through a form. It can be increased. I am surprised though, because the limit is pretty high by default I believe. @JeanFrancoisFournier How many ingredients in the meal you try to submit ?

[JeanFrancoisFournier]

I think it has to do with the fact that during the CM process, every time we confirm the ingredients for the recipe of the day, a menu_component listing the ingredients used for that day. It also adds these ingredients in the component (dishes and recipes) with a mention that these ingredients were used on that date. See image below.

As the year progresses, we may serve a recipe 12 times or more with 12 to 20 different ingredients. This means that the component (dishes and recipe) becomes longer and longer. I think that's why we reached Django's limit on recipes that are served often and are ingredients heavy.

[JeanFrancoisFournier]

and to answer your questions there is (as of today and until we serve the vegetable lasagna again) 251 ingredients listed in the recipe. Of these, only 7 are used to load the recipe in the UI and all the others were created by the application.

[manumilou]

OK JF, I understand. So there is no point in increasing the limit of fields, except as a temporary bandaid, we'd better fix the underlying problem. In my mind, the problem occurs because we try to use the same concept (`Component) to serve two different purposes:

1. As generic recipes, to be loaded and modified during the KC
2. To trace back which ingredients were used for a given day. Maybe, also used to print the list of ingredients later in the KC, can't remember at the moment.

Any suggestions on how to fix that ?

Couple of questions for you:

• Do you ever need to use ingredients for a previous modified recipe or using the generic ingredients and modify them every time during the KC is acceptable ?
• Do you need to keep a history of what ingredients were used in a given recipe in the past ? If yes, is this admin interface the source of truth you are using ?