On 3/16/07, Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The purpose of web development frameworks is to make common web > development tasks easier, or give them to you for free. A forms > framework which requires custom code for password comparisons does not > satisfy this fundamental requirement.
While I can understand feeling frustrated at writing custom validation methods, I personally I like the idea that the thing-which-accepts-data and the thing-which-validates-data are separate from one another; after spending a couple years working with the old manipulator system -- where "knowledge" of validation is literally scattered all over the place -- it's like a breath of fresh air, even if it means I occasionally have to write a short validation method at the Form level instead of putting it directly on a Field (I've done exactly that for password confirmation, btw -- the method to do it is four lines long). And that distinction -- between Field-level validation and Form-level validation -- also makes intuitive sense to me; it feels right that a Field only needs to know about itself, while a Form is responsible for knowing about all its constituent Fields and their interactions (and, hence, validation which involves multiple Fields goes at the level of the Form instead of the level of the Field). But I'm just thinking out loud here, and I'm far from being an expert on newforms, so I'll defer to someone more knowledgeable. (also, django-developers is probably a better place to discuss this, since it's a design issue in Django itself) -- "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct -- the best kind of correct." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
