On 02/18/11 09:44, Roman Klesel wrote: > [..] in some cases the values > stored in the tables have to be converted before the can be displayed > and also have to be converted bevore bein saved to the database. > [...]
> def clean(self,value): > "convert the literal value to the db representation" > [...] > On top of that, I feel like working against the ideas of whole validation > thing. I think you may consider it a hack > Can someone suggest a better solution? Maybe an easier one. Or a more > stable one? There are quite some fields where I have to do such > conversions. I'm really trying to find a clean solution which is not > just tricking the framework. I would use pre_save signal for data modification http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/signals/ http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/signals/#django.db.models.signals.pre_save Piotr -- blog http://piotr.zalewa.info jobs http://webdev.zalewa.info twit http://twitter.com/zalun face http://facebook.com/zaloon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
