The design and the patch look good to me. Thanks! Claude
Le jeudi 19 mai 2016 05:01:37 UTC+2, Jon Dufresne a écrit : > > Hi, > > Occasionally I'll need to define a CharField on a model that is unique but > also allow blank values. At the database level, this is easily handled by > storing NULL for the blank values. (Storing the empty string multiple times > will result in a DB unique constraint violation.) This use case has > surfaced several times as evident by the 9 year old ticket #4136 [1]. > > I have created a POC solution to the ticket at PR 6624 [2]. The change > adds the attribute "empty_value" to forms.CharField. The value specified by > empty_value is used as the Python empty value for the field. This value > defaults to the empty string (current behavior) but could also be changed > to None. The change also modifies model forms to set empty_value to None > for CharField when null=True is set. The model forms change allows the use > of the admin to save blank, unique char values without unique constraint > violations. > > This choice to create the empty_value attribute API was based on the prior > art of the empty_value attribute of TypedChoiceField [3]. > > In the PR Tim Graham requested I raise the new API on the developers list. > I'm looking for concerns or feedback regarding the new attribute or any > other issue with the PR. > > Thanks! > > Cheers, > Jon > > > [1] https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/4136 > [2] https://github.com/django/django/pull/6624 > [3] > https://github.com/django/django/blob/218175b/django/forms/fields.py#L832-L856 > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/ddebcca8-31f3-464e-a993-e4bdd288860d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
