CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pythondjango
carlos de la morena
carlos de la morena

Reputation: 93

How to validate a field with uppercase with django serializers

I am programming an API and I have noticed the following error when debugging. The following code does not validate the Status field

class DocumentSalesforceSerializer(serializers.Serializer):
    AccountId = serializers.CharField(required=True)
    ContactId = serializers.CharField(required=True)
    Status = serializers.CharField(required=True)
    StartDate = serializers.CharField(required=True)
    EndDate = serializers.CharField(required=True, allow_blank=True)
    Subject = serializers.CharField(required=True)

    def validate_status(self, Status):
        if Status not in ("New", "In Progress", "On Hold", "Completed", "Closed", "Cannot Complete", "Canceled"):
            raise serializers.ValidationError("Invalid Status")
        return Status

But, when I change the word "Status" to "status" like this:

class DocumentSalesforceSerializer(serializers.Serializer):
    AccountId = serializers.CharField(required=True)
    ContactId = serializers.CharField(required=True)
    status = serializers.CharField(required=True)
    StartDate = serializers.CharField(required=True)
    EndDate = serializers.CharField(required=True, allow_blank=True)
    Subject = serializers.CharField(required=True)

    def validate_status(self, status):
        if status not in ("New", "In Progress", "On Hold", "Completed", "Closed", "Cannot Complete", "Canceled"):
            raise serializers.ValidationError("Invalid Status")
        return status

Everything is working perfectly fine. Can anyone tell me why is it working like that and how can I do to validate the "Status" uppercase field? Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 351

Answers (1)

willeM_ Van Onsem
willeM_ Van Onsem

Reputation: 476659

The following code does not validate the Status field.

It expects that the validator is named validate_Status, so with an uppercase S as well:

class DocumentSalesforceSerializer(serializers.Serializer):
    AccountId = serializers.CharField(required=True)
    ContactId = serializers.CharField(required=True)
    Status = serializers.CharField(required=True)
    StartDate = serializers.CharField(required=True)
    EndDate = serializers.CharField(required=True, allow_blank=True)
    Subject = serializers.CharField(required=True)

    def validate_Status(self, Status):
        if Status not in ("New", "In Progress", "On Hold", "Completed", "Closed", "Cannot Complete", "Canceled"):
            raise serializers.ValidationError("Invalid Status")
        return Status

Upvotes: 1

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