TIL/2020–11–06

I have a couple of integer fields. The purpose of these integer fields are to eventually get a total rating for a certain room. At first I thought that using max_length=5 would do the trick with limiting the maximum integer value to be ≥ 5. But it didn’t work.

Django ignores the usage of max_length for integer fields. Instead we would need to import a Django validator package.

Upon installation we can make use of the MaxValueValidator to limit the maximum integer value a user can input.

Before using MaxValueValidator:

After using MaxValueValidator:

With the use of validators, we can now limit the integers the user can input on our interface.