You've understood me perfectly. I was just being picky. I would *like* to preserve the option of cased usernames, but if wikimedia doesn't fuss with it, why should I? I'll just add a clean_username method to the registration form that .lower() 's the name entered as suggested. Thank you for your input.
On Mar 28, 1:22 pm, Evert Rol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> 2) Validate new usernames for case-insensitive uniqueness and filter > >>> with case-insensitive queries whenever the username is URL param. > > >> def view(request, username, child=None, ...): > >> username = username.lower() > > > The problem here is that that even if 'Charlie' and 'charlie' cannot > > exist as usernames concurrently, 'Charlie' still can if he gets there > > first. So if that were the case and I had '/Charlie/' and passed > > username.lower() to `widgets = > > Widget.objects.get(owner__username=username), it is going to look for > > charlie and won't find it. At least I am pretty sure that happened to > > me last evening when I was trying this, though it was pretty late... > > Ok, but cannot you store owner.username in lowercase from the start? > At some point, Charlie wants to create an account (or however you've > set it up), and while you have a proper name (Charlie Someone), the > username is (invisibly) charlie. If you put in a line on the sign up > form or similar stating that the username will be lower case, that > shouldn't be confusing. (Eg, wikimedia doesn't bother with case for > user accounts on sign up and afterwards. In fact, it always > capitalizes the first letter, even if the account would 'root', which > is typically an all lower-case account.) > For user friendliness, the username should be invisible to the user. > The fact that you allow it in the URL is ok, but should otherwise > still be invisible (You could even choose to redirect to an all lower- > case URL). > Though I fear I'm simply misunderstanding your problem (or missing > some unknowns), so all my suggestions may be of not much use anyway! > > Evert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
