From 73d62743e9cc27f09a5e30bcf7b0dbe64d6108de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adrian Holovaty Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:04:27 +0000 Subject: newforms: Added unit tests and docs explaining that clean_data will only ever contain fields of the form, even if extra fields are passed in data git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@4306 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37 --- tests/regressiontests/forms/tests.py | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) (limited to 'tests/regressiontests/forms') diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/forms/tests.py b/tests/regressiontests/forms/tests.py index d185f1ceb8..1fc6b3253f 100644 --- a/tests/regressiontests/forms/tests.py +++ b/tests/regressiontests/forms/tests.py @@ -1647,6 +1647,17 @@ u'* This field is required.' >>> print p['birthday'] +clean_data will always *only* contain a key for fields defined in the +Form, even if you pass extra data when you define the Form. In this +example, we pass a bunch of extra fields to the form constructor, +but clean_data contains only the form's fields. +>>> data = {'first_name': u'John', 'last_name': u'Lennon', 'birthday': u'1940-10-9', 'extra1': 'hello', 'extra2': 'hello'} +>>> p = Person(data) +>>> p.is_valid() +True +>>> p.clean_data +{'first_name': u'John', 'last_name': u'Lennon', 'birthday': datetime.date(1940, 10, 9)} + "auto_id" tells the Form to add an "id" attribute to each form element. If it's a string that contains '%s', Django will use that as a format string into which the field's name will be inserted. It will also put a