I have a form that requires a URL as input. I would like to check if the URL begins with http://
or https://
.
If it doesn't have one of these two 'stings' in the beginning, the form submission should give an error.
I don't have any clue on how to get started with this and could not find any info based on my limited knowledge of django and I have no clue what search terms to look up.
A basic hint would be a great help.
Thanks!
My current forms.py has a form based on a model:
class AddUrlForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = forwards
# fields = '__all__'
exclude = ["user", "counterA", "counterB", "shortcodeurl", "uniqueid"]
models.py:
class forwards(models.Model):
uniqueid = models.AutoField(primary_key=True)
user = models.CharField(max_length = 150)
urlA = models.CharField(verbose_name="URL Version A", max_length = 254)
counterA = models.DecimalField( max_digits=19, decimal_places=0,default=Decimal('0'))
urlB = models.CharField(verbose_name="URL Version B",max_length = 254)
counterB = models.DecimalField( max_digits=19, decimal_places=0,default=Decimal('0'))
timestamp = models.DateTimeField('date created', auto_now_add=True)
shortcodeurl = models.CharField(max_length = 254)
html segment where that shows how the form is integrated:
<form method="post">
{% csrf_token %}
{% for field in forwardform %}
<span>{{ field.label_tag }} </span>
<p style="color: black">{{ field }} </p>
{% for error in field.errors %}
<p style="color: red">{{ error }}</p>
{% endfor %}
{% endfor %}
<button class="btn btn-outline btn-xl type="submit">Generate URL</button>
</form>
views.py:
def forwardthis(request):
forwardform = AddUrlForm(request.POST or None)
if forwardform.is_valid():
forward = forwardform.save(commit=False)
forward.user = request.user.username
forward = forwardform.save()
uniqueid_local = forward.uniqueid
uniqueid_local_bytes = uniqueid_local.to_bytes((uniqueid_local.bit_length() + 7) // 8, byteorder='little')
shortcodeurl_local = urlsafe_base64_encode(uniqueid_local_bytes)
forward.shortcodeurl = shortcodeurl_local
forward.save()
return HttpResponseRedirect('/forwardthis')
query_results = forwards.objects.filter(user=request.user.username)
query_results_qty = query_results.count()
click_results = clickstats.objects.filter(user=request.user.username)
template = loader.get_template('forwardthis.html')
context = {
'forwardform': forwardform ,
'query_results':query_results,
'query_results_qty': query_results_qty
}
return HttpResponse(template.render(context,request))
You can create a validation method for each form field. def clean_FIELDNAME()
. I supose the url field is shortcodeurl
:
class AddUrlForm(forms.ModelForm):
def clean_shortcodeurl(self):
cleaned_data = self.clean()
url = cleaned_data.get('shortcodeurl')
if not is_valid_url(url): # You create this function
self.add_error('shortcodeurl', "The url is not valid")
return url
class Meta:
model = forwards
# fields = '__all__'
exclude = ["user", "counterA", "counterB", "shortcodeurl", "uniqueid"]