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| author | Joseph Kocherhans <joseph@jkocherhans.com> | 2010-01-12 02:29:45 +0000 |
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| committer | Joseph Kocherhans <joseph@jkocherhans.com> | 2010-01-12 02:29:45 +0000 |
| commit | 2f9853b2dc90f30317e0374396f08e3d142844d2 (patch) | |
| tree | 6f5ade3551fbc6ac7caa11eae3b2087e94a0e975 /docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt | |
| parent | 26279c572101ac1b277fc3947897cb8e840ea42e (diff) | |
Fixed #12512. Changed ModelForm to stop performing model validation on fields that are not part of the form. Thanks, Honza Kral and Ivan Sagalaev.
This reverts some admin and test changes from [12098] and also fixes #12507, #12520, #12552 and #12553.
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@12206 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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diff --git a/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt b/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt index e1a90262d9..1269dd030c 100644 --- a/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt +++ b/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt @@ -515,6 +515,18 @@ There are a couple of things to note, however. Chances are these notes won't affect you unless you're trying to do something tricky with subclassing. +Interaction with model validation +--------------------------------- + +As part of its validation process, ``ModelForm`` will call the ``clean()`` +method of each field on your model that has a corresponding field on your form. +If you have excluded any model fields, validation will not be run on those +fields. See the :ref:`form validation <ref-forms-validation>` documentation +for more on how field cleaning and validation work. Also, your model's +``clean()`` method will be called before any uniqueness checks are made. See +:ref:`Validating objects <validating-objects>` for more information on the +model's ``clean()`` hook. + .. _model-formsets: Model formsets |