How to process a form (via get or post) using class-based views?

Question

Im trying to learn class-based views, for a detail or list view is not that complicated.

I have a search form and I just want to see if I send a query to show up the res

Answer 1

Note, an answer here (Updating context data in FormView form_valid method?) solved this problem like this:

class ContextFormView(FormView):
    template_name = 'some_template.html'
    success_url = '...'
    form_class = ClassOfTheForm

    def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        form_class = self.get_form_class()
        form = self.get_form(form_class)
        context = self.get_context_data(**kwargs)
        context['form'] = form
        return self.render_to_response(context)

    def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        form_class = self.get_form_class()
        form = self.get_form(form_class)
        if form.is_valid():
            return self.form_valid(form, **kwargs)
        else:
            return self.form_invalid(form, **kwargs)


    def form_invalid(self, form, **kwargs):
        context = self.get_context_data(**kwargs)
        context['form'] = form
        # here you can add things like:
        context[show_results] = False
        return self.render_to_response(context)

    def form_valid(self, form, **kwargs):
        context = self.get_context_data(**kwargs)
        context['form'] = form
        # here you can add things like:
        context[show_results] = True
        return self.render_to_response(context)

This worked perfect for me. (same issue as in this question)

As stated above, this is not my solution, if you want to give somebody credits, go to the answer in the link and give this person the credits! (Updating context data in FormView form_valid method?)