Accessing request.user in class based generic view CreateView in order to set FK field in Django

Question

So I have a model that includes:

class Place(models.Model):
    ....
    created_by = models.ForeignKey(User)

My view is like so:

Answer 1

I know that this is old, but for other people with this problem:

There is an even simpler way - since saving a form multiple times will always use the same model instance, you can also do:

def form_valid(self, form):
    obj = form.save(commit=False)
    obj.created_by = self.request.user
    return super(PlaceFormView, self).form_valid(form)

That way, you get all the benefits of the super call - it's trivial to see that you're really only adding those two lines of code, and you don't have to repeat yourself by replicating the redirect logic.