Django forms request.user

Question

I my model users can create rifles and this rifle is obviously associated with a User.

class Gun(ImageModel):
    user = models.ForeignKey(User)  
    ...  
         


        

Answer 1

Another angle to Manoj's submission ...

use a kwarg to pass user data, as to not mess with the method signature since it expects request.POST as the first argument. A better convention would be as follows.

class TrophiesForm(ModelForm):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        #using kwargs
        user = kwargs.pop('user', None)
        super(TrophiesForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.fields['used_his'].queryset = User.objects.filter(pk = user.id)

Now in the call, this is more explicit and follows a better signature convention

form = TrophiesForm(request.POST, request.FILES, user=request.user)

You could also use instance: (note the super before you grab the instance obj)

class TrophiesForm(ModelForm):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(SubmissionUploadForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        user = self.instance.user
        self.fields['used_his'].queryset = User.objects.filter(pk = user.id)

You can then call in your views.py like so:

form = TrophiesForm(instance=*MyModel*(user=request.user))

Answer 2

I think you can achieve this by overriding the __init__() method of the form, passing in an instance of User and filtering the queryset using that user. Something like this:

class TrophiesForm(ModelForm):
    used_his = forms.ModelMultipleChoiceField(queryset=Gun.objects.filter(user__id=1))

    def __init__(self, user, *args, **kwargs):
        super(TrophiesForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.fields['used_his'].queryset = User.objects.filter(pk = user.id)

In your view you can pass in the appropriate (currently logged in) instance of User.

def my_trophies(request, *args, **kwargs):
    user = request.user
    form = TrophiesForm(user)
    ...