Opened 15 years ago

Last modified 14 years ago

#12938 new New feature

not possible to validate a many-to-many at the model

Reported by: ryazwinski Owned by: nobody
Component: Database layer (models, ORM) Version: 1.1
Severity: Normal Keywords: many_to_many, validation
Cc: contact@… Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description (last modified by Russell Keith-Magee)

Reference ticket #12065 for genesis of this ticket.

It isn't currently possible to perform model-level validation of many-to-many relationships.

For example:

class Test(models.Model):
    f1 = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    m2m = models.ManyToManyField(Other)

It is not possible to ensure that the f1/m2m relationship is unique. Validation in the Test class cannot validate the m2m because Test won't have been saved yet.

Change History (7)

comment:1 by Russell Keith-Magee, 15 years ago

Description: modified (diff)
Triage Stage: Unreviewed → Accepted

Accepted, but this isn't going to be easy to fix, due to the somewhat disconnected relationship between m2m tables and their parent models.

comment:2 by jkocherhans, 15 years ago

Just for the logs, Honza and I asked Rick to file this after a discussion about a bug flatpages. We're aware that it's going to be reaaaaaaly hard. :(

comment:3 by anonymous, 14 years ago

Cc: contact@… added

comment:4 by Luke Plant, 14 years ago

Type: → New feature

comment:5 by Luke Plant, 14 years ago

Severity: → Normal

comment:6 by Aymeric Augustin, 13 years ago

UI/UX: unset

Change UI/UX from NULL to False.

comment:7 by Aymeric Augustin, 13 years ago

Easy pickings: unset

Change Easy pickings from NULL to False.

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