Django Unleashed

7.4.1 Creating PostForm

We use a ModelForm to connect to our Post tag in Example 7.26. We also make sure to lower the case on the slug field value via the field-specific clean method, remembering to return the value for proper processing.

Example 7.26: Project Code

blog/forms.py in afcd636772

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 1  from django import forms  2  3  from .models import Post  4  5  6  class PostForm(forms.ModelForm):  7      class Meta:  8          model = Post  9          fields = '_--all_--' 10 11      def clean_slug(self): 12          return self .cleaned_data['slug'].lower()

Unlike what we do for our other forms, we don’t need to write the clean_slug() method to ensure that create is never submitted as the slug field value. Uniqueness ...