Django forms.DateInput validation

Question

I'm using the following form field definitions,

start_date = django.forms.DateField(
        label=_("Start date"), 
        initial=timezone.now().date(), 
        widget=django.forms.DateInput(format = '%Y/%m/%d'))

end_date = django.forms.DateField(
        label=_("End date"), 
        initial=None, 
        required=False, 
        widget=django.forms.DateInput(format = '%Y/%m/%d'))

Since I set the initial for start_date, it shows up on the form with the default value, something like "2013/06/25".

If I just click on submit, it immediately tells me this error:

Start date: Enter a valid date.

This is without me even doing anything! How is it that an initial value assigned by Forms according to the pre-defined format FAIL the validation ?!

Answer 1

Maybe '%Y/%m/%d' is not in the DateField's input_formats list. You can try to add it like this:

start_date = django.forms.DateField(label=_("Start date"),
                                    initial=timezone.now().date(),
                                    input_formats=['%Y/%m/%d'],
                                    widget=django.forms.DateInput(format = '%Y/%m/%d'), input_formats=('%Y/%m/%d'))
end_date = django.forms.DateField(label=_("End date"), 
                                  initial=None,
                                  required=False, 
                                  input_formats=['%Y/%m/%d'],
                                  widget=django.forms.DateInput(format = '%Y/%m/%d'), input_formats=('%Y/%m/%d'))

Hope this helps!