Re: What's the best way to do validation?

[Nick Doyle]

I'm using FormValidation with good results:

http://django-tastypie.readthedocs.org/en/latest/validation.html

On Monday, 11 February 2013 06:21:43 UTC+11, kai.k...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi!

I have developed an API and want to add validation.

What would be the best way to do this? For now, I did

override my models' save method to call full_clean().

The problem with that is that, if the model does not validate,

I get a list of error messages, but that list doesn't include the

fields the errors belong to. I thought about taking validation

from the model layer and bringing it only to the api because

the whole application is basically the api so I don't need validation

on the model layer. I created Resources that each include several

models, basically aggregating them to provide convenient access.

For that I'm using the full=True attribute to include the children into

their respective parent Resources. Is this a problem if I want to

use FormValidation? Would I have to mangle with the bundles (like

extracting the child Resources before validation) in order for it to work?

How do you guys do validation in combination with "full=True"?

Thanks!