Jonathan,
I think what you are running into is the differences between how
models are declared vs how forms are declared. In models you declare
the fields as blank=True and/or null=True to specify that the data
stored in the database can be left blank. Something like this:
class MyModel(models.Model):
additional_comments = models.TextField(blank=True)
When declaring a form, nothing is directly stored in the database so
the keyword 'required' is used. For example:
class MyForm(forms.Form):
additional_comments = forms.TextField(required=False)
If you are creating a form from a model, blank=True inside the models
is transformed into required=False for the form.
class MyModelForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = MyModel
Hope this helps!
Dan Harris
dih0...@gmail.com
On Jun 22, 4:11 pm, Jonathan Hayward
<christos.jonathan.hayw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What is the preferred way to make e.g. a TextField that will pass validation
> if it is left empty? I've seen two approaches apparently referenced in the
> documentation:
>
> additional_comments = models.TextField(required = False)
>
> additional_comments = models.TextField(blank = True)
>
> and run into errors with the first. Does this mean that I should go with the
> second, or is there another way that is preferred?
>
> I'm using 1.2.
>
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