validators = [MinValueValidator] does not work in Django

Question

I want to set the minimum value for FloatField in Django so that the form field does not accept negative value. In case of Integers I changed the datatype to PositiveIntegerField but minimum value is not working in case of float field.

from django.core.validators import MaxValueValidator, MinValueValidator

max_discount = models.FloatField( verbose_name=u'Maximum Discount', validators = [MinValueValidator(0.0)])

Answer 1

Your code:

from django.core.validators import MaxValueValidator, MinValueValidator

max_discount = models.FloatField( verbose_name=u'Maximum Discount', validators = [MinValueValidator(0.0)])

looks fine. You should note though that

validators will not be run automatically when you save a model, but if you are using a ModelForm, it will run your validators on any fields that are included in your form.

See the docs for more info.

You can add some sort of html attribute validation in your form too, for example:

<input type="number" min="0.0">

to your server-side validation.

EDIT

If your form field is in the admin interface you can customize the widget (basically the HTML) for this field. You can see here how to add a custom widget to a field in the admin interface.

Answer 2

I have done the same thing like this,

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

class Coupon(models.Model):
    code = models.CharField(max_length=50,
                               unique=True)
    valid_from = models.DateTimeField()
    valid_to = models.DateTimeField()
    discount = models.IntegerField(
                      validators=[MinValueValidator(0),
                                  MaxValueValidator(100)])
    active = models.BooleanField()
    def __str__(self):
        return self.code

I have set discount code like this,

discount = models.IntegerField(
                          validators=[MinValueValidator(0),
                                      MaxValueValidator(100)])

discount: The discount rate to apply (this is a percentage, so it takes values from 0 to 100). We use validators for this field to limit the minimum and maximum accepted values.

You can try this way might be working for you.

Thanks.