On Thursday, February 7, 2013 3:39:43 AM UTC-5, Some Developer wrote: > > On 06/02/13 23:00, Rainy wrote: > > On Wednesday, February 6, 2013 3:09:39 PM UTC-5, Some Developer wrote: > > > > Why doesn't the form_valid() (and for that matter the > form_invalid()) > > method in the FormView generic class based view take a request > > argument? > > > > I've found that if you have a form which requires you to override > the > > form_valid() method because you need to do custom logic before you > save > > the model and you need to save the user ID of the person who posted > the > > form you need to also override the post() method in order to pass on > > the > > correct data by manually adding it to the post argument of the > > form_valid() method by using request.user. > > > > Am I missing something here? Is there any easier way to achieve what > I > > want to achieve? > > > > > > > > How about using self.request attribute? -rainy > > Heh I don't know how I missed that. Thanks, that solves a couple of > issues :). > > I'm in the process of converting some old code to class based views and > am still getting used to using them. > >
No problem. There's of course also self.args and self.kwargs. If you need to use views that inherit from multiple CBVs, take a look at my tutorial that uses modified GCBVs: http://lightbird.net/dbe2/ (I will add more tutorials in near future) HTH, -rainy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
