Accessing request.user in class based generic view CreateView in order to set FK field in Django
Solution 1:
How about overriding form_valid
which does the form saving? Save it yourself, do whatever you want to it, then do the redirect.
class PlaceFormView(CreateView):
form_class = PlaceForm
@method_decorator(login_required)
def dispatch(self, *args, **kwargs):
return super(PlaceFormView, self).dispatch(*args, **kwargs)
def form_valid(self, form):
obj = form.save(commit=False)
obj.created_by = self.request.user
obj.save()
return http.HttpResponseRedirect(self.get_success_url())
Solution 2:
I know that this is old, but for other people with this problem:
There is an even simpler way - since saving a form multiple times will always use the same model instance, you can also do:
def form_valid(self, form):
obj = form.save(commit=False)
obj.created_by = self.request.user
return super(PlaceFormView, self).form_valid(form)
That way, you get all the benefits of the super call - it's trivial to see that you're really only adding those two lines of code, and you don't have to repeat yourself by replicating the redirect logic.