DateField error when null

[brianmay]

Hello,

I have the following datefield:

dob = DateField(allow_null=True, required=False)

When I try to set it to an empty string '' using json input, I get:

dob: [Date has wrong format. Use one of these formats instead: YYYY[-MM[-DD]]]

It wouldn't surprise me if the other date time fields have the same problem.

Thanks

[jpadilla]

@brianmay did you try actually setting it to null instead of an empty string?

[lovelydinosaur]

@brianmay As @jpadilla says... don't do that. Use null to mean null.

If you want to allow blank values too then you can do so by setting allow_blank=True, although I wouldn't recommend it for date fields.

Having said that this did bring to light that date fields with allow_null=True do not currently work in HTML input, so opened #2330 as a result.

[brianmay]

Yes, was wondering after I switched off my computer if this bug report was actually sane or not... Suspect maybe it wasn't.

Anyway, thanks for the responses.