How to make a field conditionally optional in WTForms?

Question

My form validation is working nearly complete, I just have 2 cases I don\'t know exactly how to solve: 1) The password field should be required of course but I also provide

Answer 1

I'm not sure this quite fits your needs, but I've used a RequiredIf custom validator on fields before, which makes a field required if another field has a value in the form... for instance, in a datetime-and-timezone scenario, I can make the timezone field required to have a value if the user has entered a datetime.

class RequiredIf(Required):
    # a validator which makes a field required if
    # another field is set and has a truthy value

    def __init__(self, other_field_name, *args, **kwargs):
        self.other_field_name = other_field_name
        super(RequiredIf, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

    def __call__(self, form, field):
        other_field = form._fields.get(self.other_field_name)
        if other_field is None:
            raise Exception('no field named "%s" in form' % self.other_field_name)
        if bool(other_field.data):
            super(RequiredIf, self).__call__(form, field)

The constructor takes the name of the other field that triggers making this field required, like:

class DateTimeForm(Form):
    datetime = TextField()
    timezone = SelectField(choices=..., validators=[RequiredIf('datetime')])

This could be a good starting point for implementing the sort of logic you need.