I am now doing my query in the form's clean method, and it errors the way I want it to. Thank you.
Although, I do feel dirty doing it this way. I feel like I should be able to append an error to the form in the view. On Jul 11, 3:04 pm, Andre Terra <andrete...@gmail.com> wrote: > I feel your pain, validating forms can be a PITA... Try reading through this > last bit of the form validation docs: > > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/forms/validation/#cleaning-... > > Cheers, > André Terra > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Brian McKeever <kee...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a search form that is used by a view to search for results and > > then redirect to display them one at a time. If my search doesn't find > > any objects matching the criteria, I'd like to display a message > > saying so. > > > It seems natural to add this error to the search form and redisplay it > > since it already displays error with the search. > > > Is there an easy way to do this, or should I be doing something else > > because a failed database query is not a form error? > > > I've been trying to do this: > > form.non_field_errors().append(forms.ValidationError("No roblems found > > matching that criteria")) > > but it doesn't work (non_field_errors() is not well documented). > > > -- > > 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. -- 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.
