Testing the validity of a form which has inline formsets from a View subclass

[Shaheed Haque]

Hi all,

I have a set of views in a superclass/subclass hierarchy like this:

• mobile_view is a subclass of
• generic___view is a subclass of
• django-extra-views formset support view

As expected, the django-extra-views formset support's "post()" logic does a "if form.is_valid() then form.save(commit=False)", and then proceeds to save the contents of the formsets after testing them with formset "is_valid" logic, before returning an HttpResponse. AFAICS, no exceptions are raised to signal the error.

Let's say I now want to do some additional work in generic_object_view, based on whether the superclass had an error or not:

• I could construct the form again, and the formsets again, and basically redo what the superclass did
  
• And of course, it would need redoing again one layer up in "mobile_view".

Or have I missed something I can test in the view itself (i.e. self.<something>) or the return HTTPResponse?

Thanks, Shaheed