The following code snippet is from https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/topics/class-based-views/mixins/#using-formmixin-with-detailview
CAUTION: you almost certainly do not want to do this.
# It is provided as part of a discussion of problems you can
# run into when combining different generic class-based view
# functionality that is not designed to be used together.
from django import forms
from django.http import HttpResponseForbidden
from django.urls import reverse
from django.views.generic import DetailView
from django.views.generic.edit import FormMixin
from books.models import Author
class AuthorInterestForm(forms.Form):
message = forms.CharField()
class AuthorDetail(FormMixin, DetailView):
model = Author
form_class = AuthorInterestForm
def get_success_url(self):
return reverse('author-detail', kwargs={'pk': self.object.pk})
def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
context = super().get_context_data(**kwargs)
context['form'] = self.get_form()
return context
def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
if not request.user.is_authenticated:
return HttpResponseForbidden()
self.object = self.get_object()
form = self.get_form()
if form.is_valid():
return self.form_valid(form)
else:
return self.form_invalid(form)
def form_valid(self, form):
# Here, we would record the user's interest using the message
# passed in form.cleaned_data['message']
return super().form_valid(form)
get_success_url() is just providing somewhere to redirect to, which gets used in the default implementation of form_valid(). We have to provide our own post() as noted earlier, and override get_context_data() to make the Form available in the context data.
Sentence above is mistake, isn't it ? Because get_context_data() does not require override to capture Form inside context. It's done automatically by FormMixin.
Thanks for the report. We can remove
get_context_data()and, and override get_context_data() to make the Form available in the context data.from this example.