On Thursday, March 21, 2013 5:07:36 PM UTC-4, aub...@deepearth.co.uk wrote: > > Hello, > > I have form class that has a relatively lengthy clean method which does > field > validation (as the validity of fields depends on the values of fields) as > well > setting error messages on the form itself. I also intend to be part of an > app > used in multiple views in a few projects. > > I want to run certain actions (aside from the usual slew of validation > failure > messages) based upon 1) the view in the which the form is being used 2) > which > clean checks fail. These actions may also need to alter the http response, > possibly adding items to the context of the template to be rendered and > possibly changing which template to use all together. > > I'm relatively new to the Django framework and I was wandering if anyone > had > ideas what might a good way to go about this. > > Below are current thoughts on the problem: > > + Have the validation function set variables on the form when validation > checks fail and use these in the view to determine what action to run. > The > problem with this is would mean subclassing existing Django classes and > altering them to set attributes when the built in validation checks > fail. >
I believe you can just set self.my_flag = foo in clean method and then check for that. -ak -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
