Re: Missing/inconsistent GenericIPAddressField validation?

On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Hans S. Tømmerholt <hanst@opera.com> wrote:
> GenericIPAddressField isn't intended to represent a CIDR address, which I
> guess is what I'm trying to put into it.
>
> There is stuff like this:
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-netfields/0.2.1

+1

This is what we use for CIDR and arbitrary IP ranges, stored in
postrgres as native types so that queries/filters all happen on the DB
server with exceptional performance.

>
> I am still slightly confused as to why validation doesn't occur on the model
> level, though.


Validation only happens if you instruct it to happen. If you just
save() the model instance, no validation occurs. See the "Note ..."
paragraph here:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/models/instances/#validating-objects

Cheers

Tom

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