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Diffstat (limited to 'docs/ref/forms')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ref/forms/validation.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/forms/validation.txt b/docs/ref/forms/validation.txt index 7657353495..42006bba90 100644 --- a/docs/ref/forms/validation.txt +++ b/docs/ref/forms/validation.txt @@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ example:: ... def clean(self): - cleaned_data = self.cleaned_data + cleaned_data = super(ContactForm, self).clean() cc_myself = cleaned_data.get("cc_myself") subject = cleaned_data.get("subject") @@ -316,6 +316,9 @@ example:: In this code, if the validation error is raised, the form will display an error message at the top of the form (normally) describing the problem. +Note that the call to ``super(ContactForm, self).clean()`` in the example code +ensures that any validation logic in parent classes is maintained. + The second approach might involve assigning the error message to one of the fields. In this case, let's assign an error message to both the "subject" and "cc_myself" rows in the form display. Be careful when doing this in practice, @@ -329,7 +332,7 @@ sample) looks like this:: ... def clean(self): - cleaned_data = self.cleaned_data + cleaned_data = super(ContactForm, self).clean() cc_myself = cleaned_data.get("cc_myself") subject = cleaned_data.get("subject") |