Question

I have a search view on my application build on django-haystack. It works fine.

from haystack.forms import SearchForm
from haystack.query import SearchQuerySet
from haystack.views import SearchView

class SearchView(SearchView):
    sqs = SearchQuerySet().filter(lang=get_language())
    template = "search/search.html"
    searchqueryset = sqs
    results_per_page=10
    form_class=SearchForm

I want to add a custom validation to this view to set minimum input value. What is the most appropriate way to do that?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Validation is a part of form behavior, so you need to create successor of SearchForm and add custom validation there. There is example in docs.