Preparation for generic user views
Added a getSuffixValues method that is meant to allow for having a
non-public field as key_name.
Also added support for a key-name field being embeded in the form so
that if the key-fields change the old key_name is not lost.
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]])))