Django unique_together doesn't work with ForeignKey=None

Question

I saw some ppl had this problem before me, but on older versions of Django, and I\'m running on 1.2.1.

I have a model that looks like:

class Category         


        

Answer 1

I had that problem too and solved it by creating a supermodel with clean method (like Alasdair suggested) and use it as base class for all my models:

class Base_model(models.Model):
  class Meta:
    abstract=True

  def clean(self):
    """
    Check for instances with null values in unique_together fields.
    """
    from django.core.exceptions import ValidationError

    super(Base_model, self).clean()

    for field_tuple in self._meta.unique_together[:]:
        unique_filter = {}
        unique_fields = []
        null_found = False
        for field_name in field_tuple:
            field_value = getattr(self, field_name)
            if getattr(self, field_name) is None:
                unique_filter['%s__isnull'%field_name] = True
                null_found = True
            else:
                unique_filter['%s'%field_name] = field_value
                unique_fields.append(field_name)
        if null_found:
            unique_queryset = self.__class__.objects.filter(**unique_filter)
            if self.pk:
                unique_queryset = unique_queryset.exclude(pk=self.pk)
            if unique_queryset.exists():
                msg = self.unique_error_message(self.__class__, tuple(unique_fields))
                raise ValidationError(msg)