Django: Accessing request in forms.py clean function

Question

Hi Stackoverflow people,

In my clean function in forms.py, I would like to save automatically some information in a session variable. However, I do not seem to get

Answer 1

Overriding the form.get_initial() works for me

class ItemCreate(FormView):
    def get_initial(self):
        init = super(ItemCreate, self).get_initial()
        init.update({'request':self.request})
        return init

And in the clean we can access it with form.initial dict

class sampleForm(forms.Form):
    ...
    ...
    def clean(self):
    user_request = self.initial['request']

By the way, we don't need to pop the extra args like suggested above.

Answer 2

You can overwrite the FormMixin's get_form_kwargs method to add the request for to the form's init parameters:

class ItemCreate(FormView):
     def get_form_kwargs(self):
         kwargs = super(ItemCreate, self).get_form_kwargs()
         kwargs.update({
             'request' : self.request
         })
         return kwargs