Yes, validators are for form input, but you can have them applied to regular inserts and updates by using validate_and_insert() and validate_and_update() in place of insert() and update().
Anthony On Thursday, December 1, 2011 9:07:07 AM UTC-5, Manakel wrote: > > Hello, > > Here is the use case. I have 2 Entities A & B (Models) that can be > linked together using a m2m relationships in a "link" table. the 2 > Entities each have a 'category' field and there are some business > rules like > Items of A with category C1 are not allowed to be linked to Items of B > with category C2 > > Now i need to ensure that, whatever the view / controller used to > attempt to create the new link, my central validation get a chance to > accept or refuse the creation of Links . > > I was thinking that i need a custom validator, but i had the feeling > that custom validator are only for form and not for models? > >
