Extending Django's Generic Views

Question

I\'m writing my first app in Django, and I have a problem with the create_object Generic View; In my urls.py, I have:

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Answer 1

You can do this by overriding the get_form method:

from django.views.generic import CreateView

class CustomCreateView(CreateView):
    def get_form(self, form_class):
        form = super(CustomCreateView, self).get_form(form_class)
        form.instance.user = self.request.user
        return form

EDIT: Nowadays I would override form_valid as per Issac Kelly's answer:

from django.views.generic import CreateView

class CustomCreateView(CreateView):
    def form_valid(self, form):
        form.instance.user = self.request.user
        return super(CustomCreateView, self).form_valid(form)

Answer 2

You want to override the form_valid method.