On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Andre Terra <andrete...@gmail.com> wrote:

> May I ask if you are managing to do this (and, if so, how) without
>> writing duplicate logic?
>>
>
> This, to me, is a key area for improvement. Aside from the development
> challenge the idea imposes, an extra issue with writing DRY validation for
> django and javascript is that the project doesn't officially endorse any
> javascript library (there's been extensive discussion about this), but
> nobody says it's not okay to write an app that uses jQuery, for example.
>


A probable approach would be , probably, for the form renderer to
*automatically* clone the validation logic written in clean() to js? (!!)



> My issue with uni-form and the like is that these apps get hard to extend
> once you find a fringe-case for your app. I tried using it once and soon
> enough I was writing so much custom code that I decided to drop uni-form
> altogether.
>

Can you educate us on the use-case; i am just curious.


> History shows good ideas *do *get implemented, and Alex Gaynor is, imho,
> the developer to look at for examples on how to write quality django apps
> (for instance, take a look at https://github.com/alex/django-filter/
> <https://github.com/alex/django-filter/%20>which is pretty small, but very
> django-like, even though he's not really proud of the API for that app in
> particular)
>

An awsum app that is! I was even more excited when i looked at its code. So
little, but so powerful!

-V

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