#22406: Inconsistent way to parse boolean value from posted data
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Reporter: xiaowl@… | Owner: nobody
Type: Bug | Status: closed
Component: Forms | Version: 1.6
Severity: Normal | Resolution: needsinfo
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: 1 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by Thomas Hamann):
Replying to [comment:3 Christian Kreuzberger]:
> A similar inconsistency still exists in 1.11 with BooleanFields and
NullBooleanFields in django.forms:
>
> NullBooleanField uses the NullBooleanSelect widget, while BooleanField
uses the CheckboxInput widget:
>
> BooleanField uses django.forms.widget.CheckboxInput which evaluates
'true','True',True,'1' to True, and 'false','False',False,'0' to False -
which is fine.
>
>
> But NullBooleanField uses NullBooleanSelect, which as stated above, does
NOT evaluate 'false' to False, and not 'true' to True. Instead, it
evalutes '2' and 'True' to True, '3' and 'False' to False...
>
This same behaviour in combination with a Google Chrome/Chromium 'feature'
leads to some very unexpected behaviour that may cause people to assume
their APIs are broken.
In Chrome and many Chromium-based browsers first submitting a URL of the
form:
/my/site/?show_only_assigned_tasks=true
and then re-submitting it as:
/my/site/?show_only_assigned_tasks=True
causes the browser to assume that the same URL was entered twice because
the page caching mechanism apparently does not check on case-sensitivity!
Apparently this is by design...
As mentioned by Christian this works out fine for BooleanFields, but due
to the inconsistency in the NullBooleanField string handling the API will
seem to keep failing even when using the correctly capitalized URL after
first using the wrongly capitalized one in Chrome/Chromium.
There are two user-side solutions that do not involve using Christian's
solution, and both are user-unfriendly:
- empty browser cache
- disable certain security settings
It would be better if Django 1.11 could be patched to fix the issue.
I don't know whether this same behaviour happens in Django 2.0 or above
when using Chrome or Chromium, but it may be worth checking because just
making a user click on intentionally wrong URLs in Chrome can result in a
seemingly broken Django site.
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