On 10/7/05, Jason Huggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By default, it looks like validators in Django are only given the new > field's value and the posted form data... I have a custom validator for > my model that depends on information only available in the request. How > can I get to the request object from inside the validator?
Correct: validators don't have access to request objects. Validators are decoupled from the concept of HTTP requests. Adding a request parameter to validators is *not* a good idea... In your case, I'd explicitly pass the request-object's data to the manipulator. Here's an example, playing off of the example from http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/forms/ : manipulator = ContactFormManipulator() if request.POST: new_data = request.POST.copy() # Manually pass IP address to new_data. new_data['ip_address'] = request.META['REMOTE_ADDR'] errors = manipulator.get_validation_errors(new_data) if not errors: manipulator.do_html2python(new_data) # Send e-mail using new_data here... return HttpResponseRedirect("/contact/thankyou/") else: errors = new_data = {} Adrian -- Adrian Holovaty holovaty.com | djangoproject.com | chicagocrime.org
