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?
null=True和blank=True是django.db.models中的字段属性。Null是与数据库相关的,而空白是与验证相关的。
null
默认值为null=False。如果null=False, Django将不允许在数据库列中使用null值。
如果null=True, Django会将数据库列中的空值存储为null。对于CharField和TextField, django将使用空字符串"而不是NULL。避免为CharField和TextField使用空属性。一个例外是,当CharField具有unique=True和blank=True时,则需要null=True。
空白
默认为空白=False。如果blank=False,该字段将是必需的。
如果blank=True,该字段是可选的,可以留空。blank=True和null=False将需要在模型上实现clean()以编程方式设置任何缺失的值。
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.
blank=True可以设置为任何模型字段,以控制在表单中输入值时该字段是否可以留空。这里,我们讨论的是输入数据。
null=True, if we set blank=True for a field, that model field does not receive any value, then the database or Django has to do something with that field when data is written into the database. For any kind of text content an empty string is stored in the database, so there is a value stored in the database. For other kinds of fields like date fields or numbers, we use the special data type "null". "null" can be used if a field potentially has no value, but by default, Django does not allow "null" values. That is why you need to explicitly set null=True.
假设你为任何非文本字段设置了blank=True,但你没有指定“null=True”,Django将不知道存储什么,它会抛出一个错误。