Prepopulate Django (non-Model) Form

Question

I\'m trying to prepopulate the data in my django form based on some information, but NOT using ModelForm, so I can\'t just set the instance.

This seems like it shoul

Answer 1

For what it's worth, the FormView class-based view way to do this would be to override the FormView's get_initial function. get_initial returns the initial keyword arguments used by get_form_kwargs to instantiate the form.

Docs:

• for get_initial, here,
• for get_form_kwargs, here.

Sample code:

from django.views.generic.edit import FormView

class MyFormView(FormView):

    def get_initial(self):
        initial = super(MyFormView, self).get_initial()
        # update initial field defaults with custom set default values:
        initial.update({'charfield1': 'foo', 'charfield2': 'bar'})
        return initial