this has two drawbacks:
1) the URL is validated in the "wrong" place (in clean() instead of
clean_url())
2) the error, if one occurs, is not assigned to the errors['url']
but errors['__all__']
fixing 2) would also be hackish imho
wolfram
On Nov 23, 2007 2:28 PM, Matthias Kestenholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi Wolfram,
>
>
> On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 14:05 +0100, Wolfram Kriesing wrote:
> > I got an alike problem, I ran through the docs, mailing lists, etc.
> > but no solution.
> >
> > I got:
> >
> > class LinkForm(forms.Form):
> > TYPE_CHOICES = (
> > ('user', _('User link')),
> > ('url', _('Web link')),
> > )
> > type = forms.ChoiceField(choices=TYPE_CHOICES)
> > user = forms.IntegerField(required=False)
> > url = forms.URLField(required=False, initial='http://')
> >
> > I want to validate the url-field _only_ when the type-field is set to
> > "url" otherwise I don't, and I also don't want to get errors thrown
> > otherwise!
> > But since the Field's clean() method is called first the URL always
> > gets validated :-(
> > So I have no chance to modify the url-Field to an empty string using
> > the various clean-methods.
> >
> > Is overriding the __init__() and putting the logic in there my only chance?
> > Or did I miss something here?
>
> I'd create an CharField instead of an URLField and call the validation
> functions in django.core.validators inside the Form.clean() method. That
> way you can reuse the validation without any hackery on your part.
>
>
> Matthias
>
>
> --
> http://spinlock.ch/blog/
>
>
> >
>
--
cu
Wolfram
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