Yes that's what I ended up doing but isn't it supposed to be automatic,
coming from the restrictions of the model since it's a ModelForm?
On Thursday, April 5, 2012 7:51:14 PM UTC+2, Pavan Verma wrote:
>
> Hi Bastian,
> you need to define the restrictions on the username field. It can be
> done by including the code below inside usernameForm. This code is
> from django/contrib/auth/forms.py -> UserCreationForm, you can refer
> it to understand further.
>
> username = forms.RegexField(label="Username", max_length=30,
> regex=r'^[\w.@+-]+$',
> help_text="Required. 30 characters or fewer. Letters, digits
> and "
> "@/./+/-/_ only.",
> error_messages={
> 'invalid': "This value may contain only letters, numbers
> and "
> "@/./+/-/_ characters."})
>
> thanks,
> -pavan
>
> On Apr 4, 7:36 pm, Bastian <bastien.roche...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a form that asks the registering user to choose a username. That
> > form is a ModelForm based on the django.contrib.auth.models Users:
> >
> > class usernameForm(forms.ModelForm):
> > class Meta:
> > model = User
> > fields = ('username', )
> >
> > The strange thing is that when it appears on the page it comes with the
> > warning that says no more than 30 characters... but it actually does not
> > check anything. I tried to enter whatever username, with spaces and ()
> and
> > in the view when I ask if form.is_valid() it returns True all the time!
> >
> > Obviously this must be a mistake on my side somewhere but on such a
> simple
> > setup I don't see where I am wrong, any idea welcome.
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