当我们在Django中添加模型字段时,我们通常这样写:
models.CharField(max_length=100, null=True, blank=True)
ForeignKey, DecimalField等也是如此。两者的基本区别是什么:
null = True只
空白= True只
null=True, blank=True
对于不同的(CharField, ForeignKey, ManyToManyField, DateTimeField)字段?使用选项1、2或3的优点/缺点是什么?
|| blank = True || null = True && blank = True
class TestModel(models.Model):
field1 = models.CharField(max_length=100, null=True)
field2 = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True) # it's not a correct way
field3 = models.CharField(max_length=100, null=True, blank=True)
数据库字段:MySQL
CREATE TABLE TestModel (
`id` INT(10) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`field1` VARCHAR(100) NULL DEFAULT NULL,
`field2` VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL,
`field3` VARCHAR(100) NULL DEFAULT NULL,
)
case-01: null = True
db: db field is accepts null value
form: form field is `required`
NB: DB IS ACCEPTS NULL VALUE, BUT FORM FIELD IS REQUIRED. SO FORM IS
SUBMITTED WHEN THIS FIELD HAVE SOME VALUE. it's good.
case-02: blank = True
db: db field is not accepts null value
form: form field is `optional`
NB: FORM IS VALID WITHOUT ANY VALUE, BUT DB IS NOT ACCEPTS NULL VALUE.
SO THE FORM IS SUBMITTED WITHOUT ANY VALUE THEN BOOM. it's worst.
case-03: null = True && blank = True
db: db field is accepts null value
form: form field is `optional`
NB: HERE FORM FIELD IS OPTIONAL & FORM IS VALID WITHOUT ANY VALUE
& DB ALSO ACCEPTS NULL VALUE. SO, IT'S BEST TO USE `null=True && blank=True`
:)
理解Django模型字段定义中的选项(至少)有两个目的是至关重要的:定义数据库表,定义模型表单的默认格式和验证。(我说“默认”是因为可以通过提供自定义表单来覆盖这些值。)一些选项会影响数据库,一些选项会影响表单,还有一些会同时影响两者。
说到null和blank,其他答案已经说明,前者影响数据库表定义,后者影响模型验证。我认为,通过查看所有四种可能配置的用例,可以更清楚地区分它们:
null=False, blank=False: This is the default configuration and means that the value is required in all circumstances.
null=True, blank=True: This means that the field is optional in all circumstances. As noted below, though, this is not the recommended way to make string-based fields optional.
null=False, blank=True: This means that the form doesn't require a value but the database does. There are a number of use cases for this:
The most common use is for optional string-based fields. As noted in the documentation, the Django idiom is to use the empty string to indicate a missing value. If NULL was also allowed you would end up with two different ways to indicate a missing value. (If the field is also unique, though, you'll have to use null=True to prevent multiple empty strings from failing the uniqueness check.)
Another common situation is that you want to calculate one field automatically based on the value of another (in your save() method, say). You don't want the user to provide the value in a form (hence blank=True), but you do want the database to enforce that a value is always provided (null=False).
Another use is when you want to indicate that a ManyToManyField is optional. Because this field is implemented as a separate table rather than a database column, null is meaningless. The value of blank will still affect forms, though, controlling whether or not validation will succeed when there are no relations.
null=True, blank=False: This means that the form requires a value but the database doesn't. This may be the most infrequently used configuration, but there are some use cases for it:
It's perfectly reasonable to require your users to always include a value even if it's not actually required by your business logic. After all, forms are only one way of adding and editing data. You may have code that is generating data that doesn't need the same stringent validation you want to require of a human editor.
Another use case that I've seen is when you have a ForeignKey for which you don't wish to allow cascade deletion. That is, in normal use the relation should always be there (blank=False), but if the thing it points to happens to be deleted, you don't want this object to be deleted too. In that case you can use null=True and on_delete=models.SET_NULL to implement a simple kind of soft deletion.
正如Django Model Field reference中所说:Link
Field options
The following arguments are available to all field types. All are optional.
null
Field.null If True, Django will store empty values as NULL in the database. Default is False.
Avoid using null on string-based fields such as CharField and
TextField because empty string values will always be stored as empty
strings, not as NULL. If a string-based field has null=True, that
means it has two possible values for "no data": NULL, and the empty
string. In most cases, it’s redundant to have two possible values for
"no data"; the Django convention is to use the empty string, not
NULL.
For both string-based and non-string-based fields, you will also need
to set blank=True if you wish to permit empty values in forms, as
the null parameter only affects database storage (see blank).
Note
When using the Oracle database backend, the value NULL will be stored to denote the empty string regardless of this attribute
blank
Field.blank
If True, the field is allowed to be blank. Default is False.
Note that this is different than null. null is purely
database-related, whereas blank is validation-related. If a field
has blank=True, form validation will allow entry of an empty value.
If a field has blank=False, the field will be required.