app/django/db/backends/mysql/validation.py
author Pawel Solyga <Pawel.Solyga@gmail.com>
Thu, 21 May 2009 13:25:11 +0200
changeset 2330 068540d91bde
parent 323 ff1a9aa48cfd
permissions -rw-r--r--
Now clicking cancel button returns user to previous page. Fixes issue 569. If you don't want that behaviour you can define cancel_redirect and user will be redirected to given url on "Cancel" button click instead of redirecting to previous page. Patch by: Daniel Hans & Pawel Solyga

from django.db.backends import BaseDatabaseValidation

class DatabaseValidation(BaseDatabaseValidation):
    def validate_field(self, errors, opts, f):
        "Prior to MySQL 5.0.3, character fields could not exceed 255 characters"
        from django.db import models
        from django.db import connection
        db_version = connection.get_server_version()
        if db_version < (5, 0, 3) and isinstance(f, (models.CharField, models.CommaSeparatedIntegerField, models.SlugField)) and f.max_length > 255:
            errors.add(opts,
                '"%s": %s cannot have a "max_length" greater than 255 when you are using a version of MySQL prior to 5.0.3 (you are using %s).' % 
                (f.name, f.__class__.__name__, '.'.join([str(n) for n in db_version[:3]])))