Added support for custom delimiters between tags.

README.md

@@ -48,9 +48,10 @@ Usage
     ```
 
 2. Configured Taggit in your Django settings to use a custom string-to-tag parser that doesn't parse on spaces to match the functionality of
-Selectize.js
+Selectize.js, and a custom tag joiner that supports configurable delimiters.
     ```
     TAGGIT_TAGS_FROM_STRING = 'taggit_selectize.utils.parse_tags'
+    TAGGIT_STRING_FROM_TAGS = 'taggit_selectize.utils.join_tags'
     ```
 
 3. Update urls.py.
@@ -96,6 +97,7 @@ TAGGIT_SELECTIZE = {
     'REMOVE_BUTTON': False,
     'RESTORE_ON_BACKSPACE': False,
     'DRAG_DROP': False,
+    'DELIMITER': ','
 }
 ```
 
@@ -133,6 +135,10 @@ Adds the 'restore_on_backspace' plugin to selectize.js.
 Adds the 'drag_drop' plugin to selectize.js. WARNING: This requires JQuery UI (Sortable) to be installed. If it's not, then
 selectize.js will throw an error in the console and refuse to run.
 
+### DELIMITER
+
+Set the delimiter between tags, for example, ';' or '|'. Make sure you have set up the custom TAGGIT_STRING_FROM_TAGS for this to work properly
+with Taggit. Default is comma, ','.
 
 Demo app
 --------

example_app/example_app/settings.py

@@ -123,3 +123,6 @@
 # Configure Taggit to use our own parser that prevents tags from getting split on spaces. We only want comma separated
 # tags to properly work with Selectize.js
 TAGGIT_TAGS_FROM_STRING = 'taggit_selectize.utils.parse_tags'
+
+# Configure Taggit to use our tag joiner so that custom DELIMITERs are supported
+TAGGIT_STRING_FROM_TAGS = 'taggit_selectize.utils.join_tags'

taggit_selectize/conf.py

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
     'REMOVE_BUTTON': False,
     'RESTORE_ON_BACKSPACE': False,
     'DRAG_DROP': False,
+    'DELIMITER': ',',
 }
 
 user_settings = getattr(settings, 'TAGGIT_SELECTIZE', {})

taggit_selectize/utils.py

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 from django.utils import six
 from django.utils.encoding import force_text
 from taggit.utils import split_strip
-
+from .conf import settings
 
 def parse_tags(tagstring):
     """
@@ -53,9 +53,32 @@ def parse_tags(tagstring):
             to_be_split.append(''.join(buffer))
     if to_be_split:
         for chunk in to_be_split:
-            words.extend(split_strip(chunk, ','))
+            words.extend(split_strip(chunk, settings.TAGGIT_SELECTIZE['DELIMITER']))
     words = list(set(words))
     words.sort()
     return words
 
 
+def join_tags(tags):
+    """
+    Given list of ``Tag`` instances, creates a string representation of
+    the list suitable for editing by the user, such that submitting the
+    given string representation back without changing it will give the
+    same list of tags.
+
+    Tag names which contain DELIMITER will be double quoted.
+
+    Adapted from Taggit's _edit_string_for_tags()
+
+    Ported from Jonathan Buchanan's `django-tagging
+    <http://django-tagging.googlecode.com/>`_
+    """
+    names = []
+    delimiter = settings.TAGGIT_SELECTIZE['DELIMITER']
+    for tag in tags:
+        name = tag.name
+        if delimiter in name or ' ' in name:
+            names.append('"%s"' % name)
+        else:
+            names.append(name)
+    return delimiter.join(sorted(names))

taggit_selectize/widgets.py

@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ def render(self, name, value, attrs=None):
                             preload: %(preload)s,
                             addPrecedence: %(add_precedence)s,
                             selectOnTab: %(select_on_tab)s,
+                            delimiter: '%(delimiter)s',
                             plugins: [%(plugins)s],
                             render: {
                                 option: function(item, escape) {
@@ -84,6 +85,7 @@ def render(self, name, value, attrs=None):
             'preload': "true" if settings.TAGGIT_SELECTIZE['PRELOAD'] else "false",
             'add_precedence': "true" if settings.TAGGIT_SELECTIZE['ADD_PRECEDENCE'] else "false",
             'select_on_tab': "true" if settings.TAGGIT_SELECTIZE['SELECT_ON_TAB'] else "false",
+            'delimiter': settings.TAGGIT_SELECTIZE['DELIMITER'],
             'plugins': ",".join(["\"{}\"".format(plugin) for plugin in js_plugins]),
             'remote_url': reverse('tags_recommendation')
         }