Django model validator not working on create

Question

I have model with a field validator

from django.db import models
from django.core.validators import MinValueValidator, MaxValueValidator

 class MyModel(mode         


        

Answer 1

The validator only works when you are using models in a ModelForm.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/validators/#how-validators-are-run

You can perform model validation by overidding clean() and full_clean() methods