Using the request object in the forms.py file

[Kayode Oladipo]

Top of the morning to you.

I'm trying to build a kinda-sorta e-voting system where there are positions and certain aspirants vie for said positions.

Now I have a form setup with a radio Choice() widget, but I want the choices dict [CHOICES] to be dynamic per page, that is, the list only contains the aspirant going for that particular position.

I intend doing this by gettting the urls and comparing them with the absolute url of each aspirant. But I have trouble doing this, I can't seem to succesfully get the request object to work.

I'll appreciate any help.

Cheers,

'Kayode

My forms.py

----------------------------------forms.py-------------------------------------------------------------

from django import forms
from django.http import Http404, HttpRequest

from .models import Aspirant, Position


class VotingForm(forms.ModelForm):

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        self.request = kwargs.pop('request', None)
        super(VotingForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

    def get_url(self):
        _ = []
        for post in Position.objects.all():
            if self.request.get_full_path() == "/post/pro":
                no_ = Position.objects.get(post='PRO')
                _.clear()
                for i in Aspirant.objects.filter(post=no_):
                    _.append(tuple([i.name, i.name]))
            elif self.request.get_full_path() == "/post/gen-sec":
                no_ = Position.objects.get(post='General Secretary')
                _.clear()
                for i in Aspirant.objects.filter(post=no_):
                    _.append(tuple([i.name, i.name]))
            elif self.request.get_full_path() == "/post/vp-admin":
                no_ = Position.objects.get(post='Vice President (Admin)')
                _.clear()
                for i in Aspirant.objects.filter(post=no_):
                    _.append(tuple([i.name, i.name]))
            elif self.request.get_full_path() == "/post/vp-editorial":
                no_ = Position.objects.get(post='Vice President (Editorial)')
                _.clear()
                for i in Aspirant.objects.filter(post=no_):
                    _.append(tuple([i.name, i.name]))
            elif self.request.get_full_path() == "/post/president":
                no_ = Position.objects.get(post='President')
                _.clear()
                for i in Aspirant.objects.filter(post=no_):
                    _.append(tuple([i.name, i.name]))

        return _
    
    aspirants = forms.ChoiceField(choices=CHOICES, widget=forms.RadioSelect)

    class Meta:
        model = Aspirant
        fields = ['aspirants']