Proper way to handle multiple forms on one page in Django

Question

I have a template page expecting two forms. If I just use one form, things are fine as in this typical example:

if request.method == \'POST\':
    form = Au         


        

Answer 1

If you are using approach with class-based views and different 'action' attrs i mean

Put different URLs in the action for the two forms. Then you'll have two different view functions to deal with the two different forms.

You can easily handle errors from different forms using overloaded get_context_data method, e.x:

views.py:

class LoginView(FormView):
    form_class = AuthFormEdited
    success_url = '/'
    template_name = 'main/index.html'

    def dispatch(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        return super(LoginView, self).dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs)

    ....

    def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
        context = super(LoginView, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)
        context['login_view_in_action'] = True
        return context

class SignInView(FormView):
    form_class = SignInForm
    success_url = '/'
    template_name = 'main/index.html'

    def dispatch(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        return super(SignInView, self).dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs)

    .....

    def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
        context = super(SignInView, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)
        context['login_view_in_action'] = False
        return context

template:

    {% csrf_token %}
    {% if login_view_in_action %}
        {% for e in form.non_field_errors %}
            

                {{ e }}
                ×
            
        {% endfor %}
    {% endif %}
    .....
    




    {% csrf_token %}
    {% if not login_view_in_action %}
        {% for e in form.non_field_errors %}
            

                {{ e }}
                ×
            
        {% endfor %}
    {% endif %}
   ....