Motivation

Currently, there is no way to validate the input to a new allocation request or a change request. The form accepts whatever input you give it, and due to the async nature of the operation, if the values are incorrect they will fail on the worker trying to perform the operation.

One clear example of this is Change Requests failing to apply in OpenShift when they try to reduce the ResourceQuota below what is currently being used.

Proposed Solution

We should investigate the possibility of introducing validation to these forms, and how to go about that. For example, when clicking submit, ColdFront could try to validate the input and if incorrect return the user back to the form with areas highlighted in red.

This will likely require making changes downstream of ColdFront.