You could just write a clean_mycharfield() (assuming mycharfield is your field name) and just return self.cleaned_data['mycharfield'].strip().
Check http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/newforms/#custom-form-and-field-validation for more details. On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 2:37 AM, Peter Rowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have an author who doesn't understand that a space is not nothing. > He persists in *sometimes* putting a leading space at the beginning of > a 'name' field. This name shows up in a ForeignKey drop down in the > admin interface. As a result, we often end up with two records. He > creates one named > " Foo" (note the leading space). When he goes to the dropdown he > doesn't see it because it is first in the sort order (not where he > would expect it to be) and so he creates another record with the name > "Foo" (i.e., without the space). He will then sometimes use the " Foo" > record and sometimes the "Foo" record and things get screwed up. > > I would love to have a CharField option, strip=True, that strips > leading/trailing spaces. I don't want to edit core, and I don't want > to monkey patch. So that leaves me with either a) create a save() for > each model that has one of these fields, or b) have a Field type that > does it for me. I have a number of these, so I opted for the later. > > E.g., > class CharFieldStripped(models.CharField): > def get_db_prep_save(self, value): > if value is not None: > value = value.strip() > return super(models.CharField, self).get_db_prep_save(value) > > So, is this the "best" way to do this? Is there a more general/correct > mechanism for adding options to Fields? > > Enquiring minds want to know! > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
