Fixed #21120 -- Added more explicit text on using validators and link to writing validators.

Thanks nicolas at niconomicon.net for the suggestion.
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Ben Huckvale 2013-09-23 14:46:19 +01:00 committed by Tim Graham
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@ -266,9 +266,12 @@ Using validators
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Django's form (and model) fields support use of simple utility functions and Django's form (and model) fields support use of simple utility functions and
classes known as validators. These can be passed to a field's constructor, via classes known as validators. A validator is merely a callable object or
the field's ``validators`` argument, or defined on the Field class itself with function that takes a value and simply returns nothing if the value is valid or
the ``default_validators`` attribute. raises a :exc:`~django.core.exceptions.ValidationError` if not. These can be
passed to a field's constructor, via the field's ``validators`` argument, or
defined on the :class:`~django.forms.Field` class itself with the
``default_validators`` attribute.
Simple validators can be used to validate values inside the field, let's have Simple validators can be used to validate values inside the field, let's have
a look at Django's ``SlugField``:: a look at Django's ``SlugField``::
@ -289,6 +292,13 @@ is equivalent to::
slug = forms.CharField(validators=[validators.validate_slug]) slug = forms.CharField(validators=[validators.validate_slug])
Common cases such as validating against an email or a regular expression can be
handled using existing validator classes available in Django. For example,
``validators.validate_slug`` is an instance of
a :class:`~django.core.validators.RegexValidator` constructed with the first
argument being the pattern: ``^[-a-zA-Z0-9_]+$``. See the section on
:doc:`writing validators </ref/validators>` to see a list of what is already
available and for an example of how to write a validator.
Form field default cleaning Form field default cleaning
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