Conditionally Require Only One Field In Django Model Form

Question

Anyway to make a field conditionally required based on whether or not another field in the same form has been filled out?

If field1 has no data, but field2 does
    form is valid.

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If field1 has no data and field2 has no data
    form is invalid

Not looking for any javascript solutions. I feel as it should be solved with django forms, but not quite sure how best to go about it.

Answer 1

You can also do this using the model if you know the validation will apply to all objects of this class. To use the below at the form level, use cleaned_data. Here is a sample right from Django documentation using ValidationError:

class Article(models.Model):

    status = models.CharField(max_length=75, blank=False, null=False)
    pub_date = models.CharField(max_length=75, blank=False, null=False)

    def clean(self):
        # Don't allow draft entries to have a pub_date.
        if self.status == 'draft' and self.pub_date is not None:
            raise ValidationError('Draft entries may not have a publication date.')
        # Set the pub_date for published items if it hasn't been set already.
        if self.status == 'published' and self.pub_date is None:
            self.pub_date = datetime.date.today()

Reference: Model Instance Clean, Django Validators

Here is a forms example:

class SimpleForm(forms.ModelForm):

    def clean(self):
        cleaned_data = super(SimpleForm, self).clean()  # Get the cleaned data from default clean, returns cleaned_data
        field1 = cleaned_data.get("field1")
        field2 = cleaned_data.get("field2"),

        if not field1 and not field2:
            raise forms.ValidationError('Please fill in both fields.')

        return cleaned_data

Reference: Form & Field Validation