Wtforms Form With Custom Validate Method Is Never Valid

I want to get the data for a user input date, or the current date if nothing is entered. I used WTForms to create a form with a date input, and override validate to return True if

Solution 1:

You aren't overriding validate correctly. validate is what triggers the form to read the data and populate the data attributes of the fields. You're not calling super, so this never happens.

defvalidate(self):
    res = super(ChooseDate, self).validate()
    # do other validation, return final res

In this case there's no reason to override validate, you're just trying to make sure data is entered for that field, so use the built-in InputRequired validator. Using field validators will add error messages to the form as well.

from wtforms.validators importInputRequireddate= DateField(validators=[InputRequired()])

See the docs for more on validation.

Finally, you need to pass the form data to the form. If you were using the Flask-WTF extension's FlaskForm, this would be passed automatically.

from flask importrequestform= ChooseDate(request.form)