import uuid import re from django.db import models from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _ from django.core.exceptions import ValidationError class EavSlugField(models.SlugField): def validate(self, value, instance): 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"not start with a number, 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 = re.sub('\s+', '_', name) # Remove non alphanumeric characters return re.sub('[^\w]', '', name)