I should have checked if there were form validation errors already.
Required fields that receive empty data get dropped in the fields'
validation before reaching the form class's clean().
On Mar 7, 11:28 am, omat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am doing custom validation in my form class's clean() method
> according to several fields in the form but some fields does not
> appear in the cleaned_data dictonary when the supplied value is
> empty.
>
> My (simplified) model is:
>
> class Event(models.Model):
> title = models.CharField(max_length=150)
> description = models.TextField(blank=True, null=True)
> start = models.DateTimeField(db_index=True)
> end = models.DateTimeField(blank=True, null=True)
>
> And my form class is:
>
> class EventForm(forms.ModelForm):
> start = SplitDateTimeField(widget=SplitDateTimeWidget())
> end = SplitDateTimeField(widget=SplitDateTimeWidget())
>
> class Meta:
> model = Event
>
> def clean(self):
> try:
> Event.objects.get(title=self.cleaned_data['title'],
>
> start__year=self.cleaned_data['start'].year,
>
> start__month=self.cleaned_data['start'].month,
>
> start__day=self.cleaned_data['start'].day)
> except Event.DoesNotExist:
> return self.cleaned_data
> else:
> raise ValidationError(_('This event already exists'))
>
> When I submit the form with all-empty values and debug, there is no
> self.cleaned_data['title'] in the form class's clean() method's
> context, but there is self.cleaned_data['description'], for example.
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> Thanks...
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