Getting self.request.user for form cleaning

[David]

Hi

I am using both FormMixin, and ListView.

When validating the form I need the users id. How can I get that into the form for cleaning? I am presuming somehow using get_form and then using the form's init to grab it, but am unsure of the syntax.

Any ideas?

Many thanks

def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):

form = self.get_form()

if form.is_valid():

return self.form_valid(form)

return self.get(request, *args, **kwargs)

[David]

For anyone else needing this:

In form:

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

        self.creator = kwargs.pop('creator', None)

In view:

form = PostForm(request.POST, creator=self.request.user.pk)

[Stephen J. Butler]

If you're using FormMixin then you can also override get_form_kwargs:

def get_form_kwargs(self):
kwargs = super(MyForm, self).get_form_kwargs()
kwargs['creator'] = self.request.user.pk
return kwargs

Then let FormMixin instantiate the form instance itself.

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[David]

Thank you for your reply. 

I had previously tried that, but must have had the syntax wrong. Am now using get_form_kwargs() as it looks nicer.