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Shalabh Aggarwal
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Shalabh Aggarwal

Shalabh Aggarwal has more than 13 years' experience in developing and managing enterprise systems, as well as web and mobile applications for small-to large-scale industries. He started his career working on Python, and although he now works on multiple technologies, he remains a Python developer at heart. He is passionate about open source technologies and writes highly readable and quality code. He is a seasoned engineering leader who loves building engineering teams and products from scratch across multiple domains while leveraging different technologies. He is also active in voluntary training for engineering students on non-conventional and open source topics. When not working with full-time assignments, he consults for start-ups on leveraging different technologies. When not writing code, he writes technical and non-technical literature, which is published across multiple blogs.
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Validating fields on the server side

We have forms and fields, but we need to validate them in order to make sure that only the correct data goes through to the database, and that errors are handled beforehand, rather than corrupting the database. These validations can also prevent the application against cross-site scripting (XSS) and CSRF attacks. WTForms provides a whole lot of field types that themselves have validations written for them by default. Apart from these, there are a bunch of validators that can be used on the basis of choice and need. In this recipe, we will use a few of them to understand the concept.

How to do it...

It is pretty easy to add validations to our WTForm fields. We just need to pass a validators...

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Shalabh Aggarwal

Shalabh Aggarwal has more than 13 years' experience in developing and managing enterprise systems, as well as web and mobile applications for small-to large-scale industries. He started his career working on Python, and although he now works on multiple technologies, he remains a Python developer at heart. He is passionate about open source technologies and writes highly readable and quality code. He is a seasoned engineering leader who loves building engineering teams and products from scratch across multiple domains while leveraging different technologies. He is also active in voluntary training for engineering students on non-conventional and open source topics. When not working with full-time assignments, he consults for start-ups on leveraging different technologies. When not writing code, he writes technical and non-technical literature, which is published across multiple blogs.
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