Can I override get_object() of a generic view?

[Jon Paugh]

Hello.

How do I override get_object() from a subclass of CreateView? Is there something I'm missing?

I'm trying to override get_object() to provide a simple behavior. However, my get_object() is never called. Instead, Django complains that I didn't set self.model properly.

I opened the Python shell with ./manage.py shell and looked at the Create.__mro__ field to make check the method resolution order, and everything looked in order. Is something wrong here?

Thanks,
Jon

-- Here's my class

class Create(CreateView):
  template_name='forms/ajax.html'

  def get_object(self):
    #raise Exception('Your face!')

    if 'model' in self.kwargs:
      self.model = self.kwargs['model']
    elif 'queryset' in self.kwargs:
      self.queryset = self.kwargs['queryset']

    return super(Create, self).get_object(queryset)

-- And here's the mro.

Create.__mro__ = (dj.views.ajax.Create,
 django.views.generic.edit.CreateView,
 django.views.generic.detail.SingleObjectTemplateResponseMixin,
 django.views.generic.base.TemplateResponseMixin,
 django.views.generic.edit.BaseCreateView,
 django.views.generic.edit.ModelFormMixin,
 django.views.generic.edit.FormMixin,
 django.views.generic.detail.SingleObjectMixin,
 django.views.generic.edit.ProcessFormView,
 django.views.generic.base.View,
 object)

[Kurtis Mullins]

Hey,

I'm not really sure what you're trying to do here. You're using a CreateView (which is built for creating new objects) and overriding the get_object(self, queryset=None) method (found in SingleObjectMixin -- https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/views/generic/detail.py) to, I'm assuming, dynamically set a Model and/or Queryset?

If you can get away with this (not saying it's impossible -- just not putting a ton of thought into it at the moment), you may have better luck giving it a shot in __init__().

I'm not sure on your use-case but looks pretty interesting none-the-less! Good luck!

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