Django: CharField with fixed length, how?
- by Giovanni Di Milia
Hi everybody,
I wold like to have in my model a CharField with fixed length. In other words I want that only a specified length is valid.
I tried to do something like
volumenumber = models.CharField('Volume Number', max_length=4, min_length=4)
but it gives me an error (it seems that I can use both max_length and min_length at the same time).
Is there another quick way?
Thanks
EDIT:
Following the suggestions of some people I will be a bit more specific:
My model is this:
class Volume(models.Model):
vid = models.AutoField(primary_key=True)
jid = models.ForeignKey(Journals, db_column='jid', null=True, verbose_name = "Journal")
volumenumber = models.CharField('Volume Number')
date_publication = models.CharField('Date of Publication', max_length=6, blank=True)
class Meta:
db_table = u'volume'
verbose_name = "Volume"
ordering = ['jid', 'volumenumber']
unique_together = ('jid', 'volumenumber')
def __unicode__(self):
return (str(self.jid) + ' - ' + str(self.volumenumber))
What I want is that the volumenumber must be exactly 4 characters.
I.E.
if someone insert '4b' django gives an error because it expects a string of 4 characters.
So I tried with
volumenumber = models.CharField('Volume Number', max_length=4, min_length=4)
but it gives me this error:
Validating models...
Unhandled exception in thread started by <function inner_run at 0x70feb0>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/runserver.py", line 48, in inner_run
self.validate(display_num_errors=True)
File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 249, in validate
num_errors = get_validation_errors(s, app)
File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/core/management/validation.py", line 28, in get_validation_errors
for (app_name, error) in get_app_errors().items():
File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/db/models/loading.py", line 131, in get_app_errors
self._populate()
File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/db/models/loading.py", line 58, in _populate
self.load_app(app_name, True)
File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/db/models/loading.py", line 74, in load_app
models = import_module('.models', app_name)
File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/utils/importlib.py", line 35, in import_module
__import__(name)
File "/Users/Giovanni/src/djangoTestSite/../djangoTestSite/journaldb/models.py", line 120, in <module>
class Volume(models.Model):
File "/Users/Giovanni/src/djangoTestSite/../djangoTestSite/journaldb/models.py", line 123, in Volume
volumenumber = models.CharField('Volume Number', max_length=4, min_length=4)
TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'min_length'
That obviously doesn't appear if I use only "max_length" OR "min_length".
I read the documentation on the django web site and it seems that I'm right (I cannot use both together) so I'm asking if there is another way to solve the problem.
Thanks again
