Why doesn't form_valid() in FormView take a request argument?

[Some Developer]

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?

[Rainy]

How about using self.request attribute?  -rainy

[Some Developer]

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.

[Rainy]

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