I think I'm having the same issue. Did you ever find a solution? On Feb 14, 5:06 pm, Karen Tracey <kmtra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Alistair Marshall < > > runninga...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > I have been trying to create a custom field that allows the user to > > enter a flowrate and clean the data back to kg/s or mol/s. > > > I though I had everything sorted, when I type '10 tones/year', it > > correctly did the conversion however when I type something that does > > not validate such as 'twenty' or '5 mph' the code runs till the raise > > validation error, however nothing else happens and the overall forms > > clean function gets called (which doesn't have all the fields in its > > clean_data attribute. > > Nothing else happens as opposed to what? What are you expecting to > happen? One field raising a validation error doe not prevent the overall > form clear() from being called, this is covered here: > > http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/forms/validation/ > > where it states: > > As mentioned, any of these methods can raise a ValidationError. For any > field, if the Field.clean() method raises a ValidationError, any > field-specific cleaning method is not called. However, the cleaning methods > for all remaining fields are still executed. > > The clean() method for the Form class or subclass is always run. If that > method raises a ValidationError, cleaned_data will be an empty dictionary. > > The previous paragraph means that if you are overriding Form.clean(), you > should iterate through self.cleaned_data.items(), possibly considering the > _errors dictionary attribute on the form as well. In this way, you will > already know which fields have passed their individual validation > requirements. > > The idea is to get all the problems identified, as far as possible, and not > let the first error encountered stop the process. That way (hopefully) all > the problems can be noted with error messages in one go-round with the user, > rather than having submit, here's an error, fix one error, resubmit, here's > a 2nd error, fix, resubmit, here's a 3rd error, etc. > > Karen
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