I'm using CherryPy, Mako templates, and SQLAlchemy in a web app. I'm coming from a Ruby on Rails background and I'm trying to set up some data validation for my models. I can't figure out the best way to ensure, say, a 'name' field has a value when some other field has a value. I tried using SAValidation but it allowed me to create new rows where a required column was blank, even when I used validates_presence_of
on the column. I've been looking at WTForms but that seems to involve a lot of duplicated code--I already have my model class set up with the columns in the table, why do I need to repeat all those columns again just to say "hey this one needs a value"? I'm coming from the "skinny controller, fat model" mindset and have been looking for Rails-like methods in my model like validates_presence_of
or validates_length_of
. How should I go about validating the data my model receives, and ensuring Session.add
/Session.merge
fail when the validations fail?
Take a look at the documentation for adding validation methods. You could just add an "update" method that takes the POST dict, makes sure that required keys are present, and uses the decorated validators to set the values (raising an error if anything is awry).
I wrote SAValidation for the specific purpose of avoiding code duplication when it comes to validating model data. It works well for us, at least for our use cases.
In our tests, we have examples of the model's setup and tests to show the validation works.
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