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
34937	Provide a get_form_kwargs for the ModelAdmin	Willem Van Onsem	nobody	"The Django `ModelAdmin` does not seem to provide a `get_form_kwargs`, it however has a `get_formset_kwargs`. The `get_form` also does not seem to create a form instance, but return a form class: the result of logic that works with the `formset_factory`.

In understand that renaming `get_form` to `get_formclass` will likely break ''a lot'',  so that is not an option, but we can define a `get_form_kwargs` which does not exists up till now, and then use this to generate optionally extra kwargs that are then injected when we *use* the form, so something like:

{{{
ModelForm = self.get_form(
    request, obj, change=not add, fields=flatten_fieldsets(fieldsets)
)

# ...

form = ModelForm(request.POST, request.FILES, instance=obj, **self.get_form_kwargs(request))
}}}

in the `_chageform_view` for example. This makes it easy to inject for example the logged in user into the form, which is often done to limit the form fields.

An alternative for that scenario could be to override `formfield_for_dbfield`, etc. but the problem with these functions is that the scope is limited to a single form field, so it does not really is flexible to do something at the level of the form."	New feature	new	contrib.admin	4.2	Normal		admin, form, form_kwargs		Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0