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 |
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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 ) ¶
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.
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Change History (7)
comment:1 by , 15 years ago
Description: | modified (diff) |
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Triage Stage: | Unreviewed → Accepted |
comment:2 by , 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 , 14 years ago
Cc: | added |
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comment:4 by , 14 years ago
Type: | → New feature |
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comment:5 by , 14 years ago
Severity: | → Normal |
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Accepted, but this isn't going to be easy to fix, due to the somewhat disconnected relationship between m2m tables and their parent models.