I am writing to see if anyone thinks this is not a bug before creating a new ticket. I have an app that runs as expected on Django 1.1.1. It used to work on the development version, but a problem arose no later than 1.2 alpha 1 SVN-12271, and perhaps much earlier.
Basically, the errors dictionary is wrong for every CharField with choices in the model. My custom validation continues to work, except when overridden by default validation. When my custom validation is commented out, the picture becomes clearer: 1) An error "Value u"A325" is not a valid choice" is reported for a select field with no possibility of selecting a blank when any of the four available choices is selected. Elimination of the "blank" line is handled as described on 11/07/07 by semenov at http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/4653 using a combination of an explicit blank=False and a declared default value. This is baffling. I cannot conceive of a reason for an error in this case. 2) An error of "This field cannot be blank" is reported for fields with a default named in the model, such as: stiff_pl_grade = models.CharField(max_length=8, choices=PL_grades, blank=False, default="A36", help_text="Stiffener PL grade") It is my understanding that if a default is supplied, it should not be necessary to fill the field, even if blank=False. FloatFields with choices and IntegerFields with choices continue to behave as expected. It seems clear that when the is_valid() method is run on the form, something bad is happening to CharFields with choices, and this type of field only, and perfectly valid string selections or string defaults are being reported as invalid, probably by automatic model validation. My code works fine under version 1.1.1 and I see nothing in the development documentation to explain this odd new behavior. Any thoughts? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
