''' Fields. Contains two custom fields: * :class:`EavSlugField` * :class:`EavDatatypeField` ''' import re from django.core.exceptions import ValidationError from django.db import models from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _ class EavSlugField(models.SlugField): ''' The slug field used by :class:`~eav.models.Attribute` ''' def validate(self, value, instance): ''' Slugs are used to convert the Python attribute name to a database lookup and vice versa. We need it to be a valid Python identifier. We don't want it to start with a '_', underscore will be used var variables we don't want to be saved in db. ''' super(EavSlugField, self).validate(value, instance) slug_regex = r'[a-z][a-z0-9_]*' if not re.match(slug_regex, value): raise ValidationError(_(u"Must be all lower case, " \ u"start with a letter, and contain " \ u"only letters, numbers, or underscores.")) @staticmethod def create_slug_from_name(name): ''' Creates a slug based on the name ''' name = name.strip().lower() # Change spaces to underscores name = '_'.join(name.split()) # Remove non alphanumeric characters return re.sub('[^\w]', '', name) class EavDatatypeField(models.CharField): ''' The datatype field used by :class:`~eav.models.Attribute` ''' def validate(self, value, instance): ''' Raise ``ValidationError`` if they try to change the datatype of an :class:`~eav.models.Attribute` that is already used by :class:`~eav.models.Value` objects. ''' super(EavDatatypeField, self).validate(value, instance) if not instance.pk: return if type(instance).objects.get(pk=instance.pk).datatype == instance.datatype: return if instance.value_set.count(): raise ValidationError(_(u"You cannot change the datatype of an " u"attribute that is already in use."))