How to set a field of the model in view using generic views?

Question

I have a model, which has an author ForeignKey, as such:

class Appointment(models.Model):
    # ...
    author = models.ForeignKey(User)
         


        

Answer 1

The following seem slightly simpler. Note that self.request is set in View.as_view

class AppointmentCreateView(CreateView):        
    model=Appointment
    form_class = AppointmentCreateForm

    def get_form(self, form_class):
        form = super(AppointmentCreateView, self).get_form(form_class)
        # the actual modification of the form
        form.instance.author = self.request.user
        return form