Opened 8 years ago

Closed 7 years ago

#28321 closed Cleanup/optimization (fixed)

FormSet.full_clean() shouldn't validate deleted forms

Reported by: Peter Inglesby Owned by: Windson yang
Component: Forms Version: 1.11
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: yes Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

Django validates all forms in a formset, including those which have been deleted by the user. This means that a formset's .errors attribute can contain reports of errors that don't actually matter.

I'd argue that this violates the principle of least surprise, and that for a deleted form with errors, an empty dict should be added to ._errors in a formset's full_clean().

At the very least this is a documentation bug, since ​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/topics/forms/formsets/#custom-formset-validation suggests not continuing with a call to clean() if a formset has any errors.

Change History (4)

comment:1 by Tim Graham, 8 years ago

Summary: Errors on deleted forms shouldn't be included in a formset's errors → FormSet.full_clean() shouldn't validate deleted forms
Triage Stage: Unreviewed → Accepted
Type: Uncategorized → Cleanup/optimization

Indeed, it looks inconsistent that BaseFormSet.is_valid() calls _should_delete_form() but full_clean() doesn't.

comment:2 by Windson yang, 8 years ago

Owner: changed from nobody to Windson yang
Status: new → assigned

comment:3 by Tim Graham, 7 years ago

Has patch: set
Needs tests: set

​PR (without a test)

comment:4 by Tim Graham <timograham@…>, 7 years ago

Resolution: → fixed
Status: assigned → closed

In f32d246:

Fixed #28321 -- Prevented FormSet.full_clean() from adding errors from deleted forms.

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