can't have an empty field about django_partial_date HOT 4 OPEN

Empty string should not be valid.

For empty dates None should be used. Is the partial date field null=True?

from django_partial_date.

Tried again but still get an error, reproduced below with identifiying information taken out. It appears the error lies in the pareDate function when it receives a blank field.

  ValidationError at /admin/pages/23/edit/
  ["'' is not a valid date string (YYYY, YYYY-MM, YYYY-MM-DD)"]
  Request Method: GET
  Request URL:    http://localhost:8000/admin/pages/23/edit/?next=/admin/dialectics/journal/
  Django Version: 3.1.7
  Exception Type: ValidationError
  Exception Value:    
  ["'' is not a valid date string (YYYY, YYYY-MM, YYYY-MM-DD)"]
  Exception Location: /wagtail-env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/partial_date/fields.py, line 105, in parseDate
  Python Executable:  /wagtail-env/bin/python
  Python Version: 3.8.10

The field is written as ->

  active_end = PartialDateField(
          blank=True,
          null=True,
      )

If it makes any difference we are using Wagtail not pure Django.

from django_partial_date.

Please make sure that your forms or any other interface to the useris properly converting the "empty user input" to None instead of "".

from django_partial_date.

I encounter the same thing and this is default Django admin page, I have to add blank=True to make the admin page saving work, and convert empty string to None in model's save() method. It maybe more convenient if django_partial_date can ignore the empty string.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/6993885/4257237

from django_partial_date.