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authorTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2014-04-05 18:14:53 -0400
committerTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2014-04-05 18:16:01 -0400
commitd2f4553d705951ca8043d687f9493c559f494a0c (patch)
tree9b618439b080f0de34a67ce9b4c86939b2277ed4
parent0a65da941c1643f0ce8d2c9644b12d3f07319c6d (diff)
downloaddjango-d2f4553d705951ca8043d687f9493c559f494a0c.tar.gz
Fixed #22216 -- Added Form.non_field_errors to form API doc.
-rw-r--r--docs/ref/forms/api.txt11
-rw-r--r--docs/ref/forms/validation.txt6
-rw-r--r--docs/topics/testing/tools.txt6
3 files changed, 17 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/forms/api.txt b/docs/ref/forms/api.txt
index f2136b202d..8a5303710a 100644
--- a/docs/ref/forms/api.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/forms/api.txt
@@ -173,7 +173,8 @@ from a view.
The ``field`` argument is the name of the field to which the errors
should be added. If its value is ``None`` the error will be treated as
-a non-field error as returned by ``Form.non_field_errors()``.
+a non-field error as returned by :meth:`Form.non_field_errors()
+<django.forms.Form.non_field_errors>`.
The ``error`` argument can be a simple string, or preferably an instance of
``ValidationError``. See :ref:`raising-validation-error` for best practices
@@ -193,6 +194,14 @@ if the field contains any errors at all.
To check for non-field errors use
:data:`~django.core.exceptions.NON_FIELD_ERRORS` as the ``field`` parameter.
+.. method:: Form.non_field_errors()
+
+This method returns the list of errors from :attr:`Form.errors
+<django.forms.Form.errors>` that aren't associated with a particular field.
+This includes ``ValidationError``\s that are raised in :meth:`Form.clean()
+<django.forms.Form.clean>` and errors added using :meth:`Form.add_error(None,
+"...") <django.forms.Form.add_error>`.
+
Behavior of unbound forms
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/docs/ref/forms/validation.txt b/docs/ref/forms/validation.txt
index 13c1e5a68d..63fc6f2658 100644
--- a/docs/ref/forms/validation.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/forms/validation.txt
@@ -85,8 +85,8 @@ overridden:
Note that any errors raised by your ``Form.clean()`` override will not
be associated with any field in particular. They go into a special
"field" (called ``__all__``), which you can access via the
- ``non_field_errors()`` method if you need to. If you want to attach
- errors to a specific field in the form, you need to call
+ :meth:`~django.forms.Form.non_field_errors` method if you need to. If you
+ want to attach errors to a specific field in the form, you need to call
:meth:`~django.forms.Form.add_error()`.
Also note that there are special considerations when overriding
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ form's ``clean()`` method, in which case you can use
:meth:`~django.forms.Form.add_error()`. Note that this won't always be
appropriate and the more typical situation is to raise a ``ValidationError``
from , which is turned into a form-wide error that is available through the
-``Form.non_field_errors()`` method.
+:meth:`Form.non_field_errors() <django.forms.Form.non_field_errors>` method.
Cleaning and validating fields that depend on each other
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/docs/topics/testing/tools.txt b/docs/topics/testing/tools.txt
index f56cbee861..30eec42bbd 100644
--- a/docs/topics/testing/tools.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/testing/tools.txt
@@ -1269,7 +1269,8 @@ your test suite.
``field`` is the name of the field on the form to check. If ``field``
has a value of ``None``, non-field errors (errors you can access via
- ``form.non_field_errors()``) will be checked.
+ :meth:`form.non_field_errors() <django.forms.Form.non_field_errors>`) will
+ be checked.
``errors`` is an error string, or a list of error strings, that are
expected as a result of form validation.
@@ -1288,7 +1289,8 @@ your test suite.
``field`` is the name of the field on the form to check. If ``field``
has a value of ``None``, non-field errors (errors you can access via
- ``form.non_field_errors()``) will be checked.
+ :meth:`form.non_field_errors() <django.forms.Form.non_field_errors>`) will
+ be checked.
``errors`` is an error string, or a list of error strings, that are
expected as a result of form validation.