How do you make django form validation dynamic?

Question

I have a form that needs to have either a valid url or a valid file for uploading:

class ResourceUpload(ModelForm):
   ...        
   uploadedfile = forms.Fi         


        

Answer 1

You'll need to set them both as required=False, so the database backend doesn't need them both filled in, and then use form cleaning:

import forms

class ResourceUpload(ModelForm):
   ...        
   uploadedfile = forms.FileField(required = False, upload_to='put/files/here')
   url_address = forms.URLField(required = False) 
   ...

   def clean(self):
       cleaned_data = self.cleaned_data
       uploadedfile = cleaned_data.get("uploadedfile ")
       url_address = cleaned_data.get("url_address ")

       if not uploadedfile and mot url_address :
           raise forms.ValidationError("Provide a valid file or a valid URL.")

       return cleaned_data