The following did it for me:
from django import newforms as forms
class yourForm(forms.BaseForm):
...
def clean(self):
"do your custom validation here"
return self.cleaned_data
does it for me.
Clean is called automatically e.g. by ...is_valid().
hope it helps.
jr
On Sep 11, 10:19 pm, Mike H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a model which needs some non-standard checks before it gets saved.
> The class looks like this :
>
> class Page(models.Model):
> name = models.CharField(maxlength=30)
> content = models.TextField()
> start_date = models.DateField()
> end_date = models.DateField()
>
> When I save the model, I want to check that there is no other page with
> the same name that has an overlapping start and end date, and cause some
> kind of validation error that the admin area will display.
>
> I have tried the following :
>
> def save(self):
> # check for the overlap happens here
> ....
> # if the check fails...
> raise validators.ValidationError(_("A page with this name
> already exists in the time period specified"))
>
> However, the admin area does not catch the exception. I've looked
> through the djangobook which references a chapter that isn't there yet,
> and the online documentation points to a .validate() on the model which
> is marked as experimental. If it's possible, where can I put custom
> validation like that, that the admin area will pick up on? I'm currently
> using 0.96 but could easily upgrade to the svn trunk if needed.
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Mike
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