Django accepts an integer into a CharField

Question

I am learning django and created a Page form class like so:

from django import forms

class Page(forms.Form):
    title  = forms.CharField(max_length = 200, min_length = 10)
    body   = forms.CharField(min_length = 200, max_length = 8000)
    author = forms.CharField(min_length = 5, max_length   = 60)
    price  = forms.FloatField(min_value = 10, max_value   = 50)

I fiddled with it in the interactive shell and found out that when I enter an integer , it simply accepts and validates all the fields although it did convert the integer to string first.

Isn't it plainly problematic? I mean I would not want any digit or any symbol in the Author field . Do I need to write my additional clean_author method or do I have any other django Form class at my disposal to address exactly this issue??

Answer 1

There is no field type that will validate that kind of data.

You can easily validate the data enter by users using regular Expressions on backend or the frontend.

exp = '[\w\s]+'

This will only accept words and whitespaces which is perfect for author name

https://regexr.com/ use this site to make your regular expression.