#2135: [patch] Slug pre-population should be possible in the server
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Reporter: greg[at]abbas.org | Owner: adrian
Status: closed | Component: Core framework
Version: | Resolution: wontfix
Keywords: slug unique | Stage: Design decision needed
Has_patch: 1 | Needs_docs: 0
Needs_tests: 0 | Needs_better_patch: 1
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Changes (by mtredinnick):
* status: new => closed
* resolution: => wontfix
Comment:
A lot of the comments here seem to be based on large misunderstandings of
what the slug field population is designed for. It provides a
''suggested'' slug that the user can edit if they wish to. Checking that
it is unique in the database is a validation-time function, not something
the edit field is going to do by default (since the user might still edit
it up to the moment they submit the form)
If you don't want the user editing the slug field, don't display it on the
admin form and use the Python slugify() function (or your own replacement)
to do what you want. This is entirely up to the developer; it's not a
policy that Django is going to require, because it depends on an
application's slug-creation policy.
There is also no requirement for the slugify filter to be the same as the
Javascript (this isn't possible in practice, since we can do much more
w.r.t. Unicode handling on the Python side).
So, thanks for the patches, but I don't think we should include this. It
doesn't add anything that isn't already possible and only adds extra
"policy" that is not always going to suit others' use-cases.
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