Django: Can class-based views accept two forms at a time?

Question

If I have two forms:

class ContactForm(forms.Form):
    name = forms.CharField()
    message = forms.CharField(widget=forms.Textarea)

class SocialForm(forms         


        

Answer 1

Use django-superform

This is a pretty neat way to thread a composed form as a single object to outside callers, such as the Django class based views.

from django_superform import FormField, SuperForm

class MyClassForm(SuperForm):
    form1 = FormField(FormClass1)
    form2 = FormField(FormClass2)

In the view, you can use form_class = MyClassForm

In the form __init__() method, you can access the forms using: self.forms['form1']

There is also a SuperModelForm and ModelFormField for model-forms.

In the template, you can access the form fields using: {{ form.form1.field }}. I would recommend aliasing the form using {% with form1=form.form1 %} to avoid rereading/reconstructing the form all the time.