Opened 19 years ago

Closed 18 years ago

#4551 closed (wontfix)

Documentation is wrong about PhoneNumberField subclass

Reported by: adamduren@… Owned by: Jacob
Component: Documentation Version: dev
Severity: Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Ready for checkin
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

In the documentation on models-api it says PhoneNumberField is a CharField type but in the source code it subclasses IntegerField.

Change History (3)

comment:1 by Chris Beaven, 19 years ago

Triage Stage: Unreviewed → Ready for checkin

That's true.

comment:2 by Chris Beaven, 19 years ago

Summary: Documentation is possibly wrong about PhoneNumberField → Documentation is wrong about PhoneNumberField subclass

comment:3 by Russell Keith-Magee, 18 years ago

Resolution: → wontfix
Status: new → closed

This is a bit of a wierd one. PhoneNumberField extends IntegerField, but only to get the 'empty_string_allowed' setting, and avoid the to_python coercion on a CharField. At the database level, PhoneNumberField is a VARCHAR(20). So, strictly, it is a character field, although not a CharField. It definitely stores char data though, so I think in the name of end-user clarity, the existing documentation is probably the best option.

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