User based objects

[Praveen Krishna R]

Hi,

This is one of my Model which has an owner, column - user.

class MiscList(models.Model):

    name = models.CharField(max_length= 30)

    user = models.ForeignKey(User);

    count = models.IntegerField()

    createdate = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add = True)

    def __unicode__(self):

        return self.name

In one of my forms I would like to have this list filtered by the currently logged in user.

Anyone of you have solved a scenario like this. 

Since this is not a view I am not able to pass request.user object to the form, in any way, what is the 

preferred way of doing this ?

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Thanks and Regards,

Praveen Krishna R

[Shawn Milochik]

You can certainly pass request.user to the form from your view.

[Praveen Krishna R]

Thank you, Shawn, I didn't knew that! I'm trying on that way now!

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Shawn Milochik <sh...@milochik.com> wrote:

You can certainly pass request.user to the form from your view.

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[Shawn Milochik]

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Praveen Krishna R
<rpravee...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you, Shawn, I didn't knew that! I'm trying on that way now!
>

You're welcome. The one 'gotcha' is that you're going to have to
remove the user from the kwargs before you call the __init__ of the
superclass. Otherwise you'll get an 'unexpected keyword argument'
exception.

Example:

def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):

self.user = kwargs.pop('user')

super(MyForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

You can then use self.user in your form's functions for filtering --
probably starting right in __init__ after the super() call to set
self.fields['field_name'].choices to be whatever they should be.

[Praveen Krishna R]

Shawn, Once again thank you very much for your help,

here is my code, if anybody could make use of it (I have changed my actual model/form names)! 

class SampleForm(forms.Form):

    head = forms.CharField()

    body = forms.CharField(widget = forms.Textarea)

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):

        self.user = kwargs.pop("user")

        super(SampleForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

        self.fields['mychoicefield'] = forms.ModelChoiceField(queryset = MySampleModel.objects.filter(user__username__iexact = self.user.username))

in the view I use

new_form = SampleForm(user = request.user)

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