I've just got to write my first form.clean method. I need to to do some complex validation of different combinations of fields depending on the setting of one other field.
This works great until one or more of the individual field validations fail. In my form.clean method I'm using the self.clean_data dict as already filled in by the individual field.clean methods. This seems like the way to go so as not to repeat the field validations. However, if a fild validation fails an entry for that field is not made in the clean_data dict, but an entry is added to the local var errors dict. Without testing for the presence of each value within clean_data, I see no way of telling whether any individual field has failed it own validation or not. As far as I am concerned, if any individual field fails validation then there is no point in doing any more validation for combinations of fields. There may be people who do want to do this though. I see two solutions: 1) don't call form.clean() if any individual field validation fails 2) pass in the local errors[] dict populated from the field.clean() calls into form.clean() so we can see if there were indeed any failed fields and decide if we want to carry on validation in form.clean() or not. Regards, Gary. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
