I would like to know if it is possible to control the phone number in SQL before inserting it to the destination DB?
I have a model in Django:
class BasePerson(TimeStampedModel): phone_number = PhoneNumberField(max_length=50, verbose_name=_(u'phone number'), blank=True)
The data for phone number that I am migrating doesn't have country code. I want to determine first if the number has country code in it, if it doesn't then I will add the country code on the number before INSERTING it to the destination database.
Any suggestion will be highly appreciated.
Thanks,
J
I don't have any code for you, if that is what you are soliciting. I did find a couple of informative web sites which help explain how international phone numbers are formatted. These are known as E.164 numbers.
Note that the above mainly talk about how a number is formatted, not on how to validate that it is an actual phone number. You must trust the end user. Which is another can of worms. Case in point -- Yesterday I got 6 automated phone calls from the local cable company to verify some installation. The problem is, I am not installing anything. The person either gave them a bad number or mistyped it into a web page or the customer service rep mistyped it.
