Hi Yuka - We do want to do the cleaning at the form level, basically because we don't want to use a CharField subclass in all places on all of our forms. You're right, there are two methods that can be overridden: clean() and full_clean(). clean() occurs too late. I think using full_clean() is possible, but it seems like I have to jump through several hoops to make it work. And just I'm looking for a simpler solution.
Thanks, Rick On Apr 14, 12:16 pm, Yuka Poppe <y...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 5:32 AM, ricksteu <rick_s...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Hello - > > > I am looking for a straightforward way to alter posted form data prior > > to when the form's full_clean() method is called. Specifically, I > > need to strip whitespace from any string data (such as for > > CharFields), and this needs to be done prior to when the individual > > fields' clean methods are called. > > Maybe I'm a bit confused, but is it not the fields cleanup method that > would be responsible for actually cleaning up its data, besides > validating? > > If you really must clean it before that, the best way indeed seems to > extend the form and overload its clean method, im not sure wich one, > there's two to look at, I recall the one was more convenient to use > then the other, as it simply just called the other method. It is > indeed responsible for calling the clean method on its fields if I'm > not mistaken, so thats the route I would choose in this case. > > Also yes, you could make a copy of the POST data, modify that and pass > it to the form constructor, but as you mentioned that doesnt seem very > nice way to handle things. > > Hope this is of some assistance. > > -- > Regards, Yuka -- 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.
