Why doesn't django's model.save() call full_clean()?

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Aaron picture Aaron · Dec 14, 2010 · Viewed 29.3k times · Source

I'm just curious if anyone knows if there's good reason why django's orm doesn't call 'full_clean' on a model unless it is being saved as part of a model form.

Note that full_clean() will not be called automatically when you call your model’s save() method. You’ll need to call it manually when you want to run one-step model validation for your own manually created models. django's full clean doc

(NOTE: quote updated for Django 1.6... previous django docs had a caveat about ModelForms as well.)

Are there good reasons why people wouldn't want this behavior? I'd think if you took the time to add validation to a model, you'd want that validation run every time the model is saved.

I know how to get everything to work properly, I'm just looking for an explanation.

Answer

lqc picture lqc · Dec 14, 2010

AFAIK, this is because of backwards compatibility. There are also problems with ModelForms with excluded fields, models with default values, pre_save() signals, etc.

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