CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pythondjango
user956424
user956424

Reputation: 1609

django modelform display blank for null

In django model form, how to display blank for null values i.e prevent display of (None) on the form .Using postgresql, django 1.6.5. I do not wish to add space in the model instance for the allowed null values.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 519

Answers (2)

user956424
user956424

Reputation: 1609

Instead I ended up using forms.HiddenInput() and did not display the field with null, which fits my case perfectly well!

Upvotes: 0

Stephen Lin
Stephen Lin

Reputation: 4912

By default, each Field class assumes the value is required, so if you pass an empty value – either None or the empty string ("") – then clean() will raise a ValidationError exception:

>>> from django import forms
>>> f = forms.CharField()
>>> f.clean('foo')
u'foo'
>>> f.clean('')
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
ValidationError: [u'This field is required.']
>>> f.clean(None)
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
ValidationError: [u'This field is required.']

If a Field has required=False and you pass clean() an empty value, then clean() will return a normalized empty value rather than raising ValidationError. For CharField, this will be a Unicode empty string. For other Field classes, it might be None. (This varies from field to field.)

Like this:

>>> f = forms.CharField(required=False)
>>> f.clean('foo')
u'foo'
>>> f.clean('')
u''
>>> f.clean(None)
u''

Upvotes: 1

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