Django CreateView: How to perform action upon save

Question

I\'m using a custom CreateView (CourseCreate) and UpdateView (CourseUpdate) to save and update a Course. I want to take an action when the Course is saved. I will create a n

Answer 1

I would suggest to use Django's Signal. That is an action that gets triggered when something happens to a Model, like save or update. This way your code stays clean (no business logic in the form-handling), and you are sure that it only gets triggered after save.

#views.py
from django.dispatch import receiver
...

@receiver(post_save, sender=Course)
def post_save_course_dosomething(sender,instance, **kwargs):
    the_faculty = instance.faculty
    #...etc