Re: Inspecting form errors in a view

On Thursday, March 21, 2013 9:47:03 PM UTC-4, Aubrey Stark-Toller wrote:

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 03:40:39PM -0700, Rainy wrote:
> I believe you can just set self.my_flag = foo in clean method and then
> check for


Cheers for the reply.

I suspect my original mail could have clearer. Just setting attributes when
checks fail seems to me to be the best way to do this, but it does mean that
if I need to check if, say, an integer field is invalid as it contains a
string then I'd to reimplement this validation in the clean method so that it
sets the necessary attribute on the form, and so on for any other field clean
methods that I may need to use and check.

I realise this is a little beyond what Django's forms where meant for and I
might have to live without some of Django's built-in validation to get this
to work, but I'd thought I'd see if anyone here had any thoughts.

Aubrey

Hi Aubrey,

I'm not sure why you think you'll need to override individual clean methods for

fields. You write:

  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.

 

So my suggestion is to check, in that single clean method, which fields have

errors and to set your flags accordingly. 

HTH! -ak

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