I saw this example in the documentation:
http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/forms/#validators
But where does this code live? Does this go into my models.py as a
subclass of my Model, or is it a separate file?
Advice appreciated,
Brandon
On May 14, 6:28 pm, Brandon Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've been using Django for awhile, but haven't had to customize the
> admin, until now, and...I'm stuck.
>
> Since newforms-admin is supposed to be more extensible, I'm running
> the latest of that, and have defined a simple model:
>
> from django.db import models
> from django.contrib import admin
>
> class Link(models.Model):
> friendly_name = models.CharField(max_length=255)
> instructor = models.CharField(max_length=100)
> instructor_email = models.EmailField()
> url = models.URLField('Website Address', verify_exists=False,
> help_text='Ener the full URL including http://')
> position = models.PositiveSmallIntegerField(editable=False)
>
> def __unicode__(self):
> return self.friendly_name
>
> class LinkAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
> list_display = ('friendly_name',)
> ordering = ['position']
>
> admin.site.register(Link, LinkAdmin)
>
> What I need an example of is how to do a custom validator for the
> ModelAdmin. How can I do something as simple as this:
>
> if self.instructor == 'some val':
> #throw an error
>
> and have it the error show up in the admin? I've never done this
> before so please bear with me. Django absolutely rocks, and I've had
> great success with it over the past couple of months. I just need to
> see a sample and can probably take it from there.
>
> Thanks a million,
> Brandon
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