django form set current login user

Question

@login_required
def post_review(request):
    if request.method == \'POST\':
        formset = ReviewForm(request.POST)
        if formset.is_valid():
            fo         


        

Answer 1

As an alternative solution, in Django 2+ using a form view - such as a CreateView or FormView, I can simply pass the self.request.user to my pre-saved form model:

class AppCreateView(CreateView):
    model = models.App
    fields = ['name']
    success_url = '/thanks/'

    def form_valid(self, form):
        app_model = form.save(commit=False)
        app_model.author = self.request.user
        # app_model.user = User.objects.get(user=self.request.user) # Or explicit model 
        app.save()
        return super().form_valid(form)

I agree the class based view is not important here. The important line is app_model.author = self.request.user.

The model is not special:

from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import User


class App(models.Model):
    author = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    name = models.CharField(max_length=255, help_text="Arbitrary name")
    created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True, max_length=255)