[Fixed]-Django Form Creating Attribute Error

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I think the problem might be in the clean() function.
Try accessing the fields using the cleaned_data dictionary:

def clean(self):
    cleaned_data = super(JobQuickSearchForm, self).clean()
    if cleaned_data['business_address_region'] and cleaned_data['business_industry'] and cleaned_data['keywords'] == '':
        raise ValidationError("You must specify either email or telephone")

I would suggest checking the presence of ‘keywords’ key in the cleaned_data before comparing to the empty string.

if 'keywords' in cleaned_data ...

I did not test it, but you could give it a try :).

Alternatively you could skip the “super” call, and use self.cleaned_data as shown in the documentation.

Check with https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/ref/forms/validation/#cleaning-a-specific-field-attribute

👤TomsaJan

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I believe you’re looking for the cleaned data, which you should be able to access like this:

cleaned_data = super(JobQuickSearchForm, self).clean()
business_address_region = cleaned_data.get('business_address_region')
# etc.

See the example validation here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/ref/forms/validation/#cleaning-and-validating-fields-that-depend-on-each-other

👤bozdoz

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