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| author | Preston Holmes <preston@ptone.com> | 2013-07-24 14:58:14 -0700 |
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| committer | Preston Holmes <preston@ptone.com> | 2013-07-24 14:58:14 -0700 |
| commit | 10f8a2100279621ca0e0fa47d99ee744741a05e7 (patch) | |
| tree | 6f6384ebab66614b5493b7d8d1fb0f045aab90d8 /docs/ref | |
| parent | bd0dcc6c89e262780df3c17f18b2462f50b48137 (diff) | |
Fixed #18168 -- clarified precedence of validation
any choices set by formfield_for_choice_field are still subject
to model validation of the model field's choices attribute
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/ref')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt index e5e9428805..137d20a351 100644 --- a/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt +++ b/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt @@ -1389,6 +1389,15 @@ templates used by the :class:`ModelAdmin` views: kwargs['choices'] += (('ready', 'Ready for deployment'),) return super(MyModelAdmin, self).formfield_for_choice_field(db_field, request, **kwargs) + .. admonition:: Note + + Any ``choices`` attribute set on the formfield will limited to the form + field only. If the corresponding field on the model has choices set, + the choices provided to the form must be a valid subset of those + choices, otherwise the form submission will fail with + a :exc:`~django.core.exceptions.ValidationError` when the model itself + is validated before saving. + .. method:: ModelAdmin.get_changelist(self, request, **kwargs) Returns the ``Changelist`` class to be used for listing. By default, |