From 2f121dfe635b3f497fe1fe03bc8eb97cdf5083b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Claude Paroz Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:19:59 +0100 Subject: Fixed #17051 -- Removed some 'invalid' field error messages When the 'invalid' error message is set at field level, it masks the error message raised by the validator, if any. --- docs/ref/forms/validation.txt | 20 ++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/ref/forms') diff --git a/docs/ref/forms/validation.txt b/docs/ref/forms/validation.txt index e89bce748f..978c985b55 100644 --- a/docs/ref/forms/validation.txt +++ b/docs/ref/forms/validation.txt @@ -181,24 +181,20 @@ the field's ``validators`` argument, or defined on the Field class itself with the ``default_validators`` attribute. Simple validators can be used to validate values inside the field, let's have -a look at Django's ``EmailField``:: +a look at Django's ``SlugField``:: - class EmailField(CharField): - default_error_messages = { - 'invalid': _('Enter a valid email address.'), - } - default_validators = [validators.validate_email] + class SlugField(CharField): + default_validators = [validators.validate_slug] -As you can see, ``EmailField`` is just a ``CharField`` with customized error -message and a validator that validates email addresses. This can also be done -on field definition so:: +As you can see, ``SlugField`` is just a ``CharField`` with a customized +validator that validates that submitted text obeys to some character rules. +This can also be done on field definition so:: - email = forms.EmailField() + slug = forms.SlugField() is equivalent to:: - email = forms.CharField(validators=[validators.validate_email], - error_messages={'invalid': _('Enter a valid email address.')}) + slug = forms.CharField(validators=[validators.validate_slug]) Form field default cleaning -- cgit v1.3