Django form validation: making “required” conditional?

Question

I\'m new to Django (and Python), and am trying to figure out how to conditionalize certain aspects of form validation. In this case, there\'s a HTML interface to the applica

Answer 1

This is done with the clean method on the form. You need to set foo_date and foo_time to required=False, though, because clean is only called after every field has been validated (see also the documentation).

class FooForm(forms.Form)
    # your field definitions

    def clean(self):
        data = self.cleaned_data
        if data.get('foo_timestamp', None) or (data.get('foo_date', None) and data.get('foo_time', None)):
            return data
        else:
            raise forms.ValidationError('Provide either a date and time or a timestamp')