id summary reporter owner description type status component version severity resolution keywords cc stage has_patch needs_docs needs_tests needs_better_patch easy ui_ux 22591 Changing of HTTP status code in form_invalid() kevmo314@… nobody "Would it be possible to permit the changing of status codes on form_invalid? We had a form where we wanted to return a 400 status code when a validation error occurs, but by default Django spits out a 200 error code. In other words, following the example at [https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/class-based-views/generic-editing/#ajax-example], we'd like to return a 400 on a non-ajax request as well. Here's the change I'd like to propose. On line 78 of django/views/generic/edit.py: {{{ def form_invalid(self, form, **kwargs): """""" If the form is invalid, re-render the context data with the data-filled form and errors. """""" return self.render_to_response(self.get_context_data(form=form), **kwargs) }}} This would permit doing something like this: {{{ response = super(AjaxableResponseMixin, self).form_invalid(form, status=400) }}} Alternatively, a failure status code property may be more intuitive to developers, but I think the above permits a bit more flexibility in terms of modifying other attributes of the response as well." New feature closed Forms dev Normal wontfix forms Adam Wróbel Unreviewed 1 0 0 0 1 0