Django(trunk) and class based generic views: one form's initial data appearing in another one's

Question

I\'ve run into a strange problem where data seems to persist accross different views and requests until the server gets restarted.

I\'ve managed to reduce the issue to t

Answer 1

Because you're mutating the kwargs that are passed in, which come from class-level properties in the view class.

Instead, copy them and update the copy:

initial_defaults = {'bug': 'no'}
initial_defaults.update(kwargs.get('initial', {}))
defaults = kwargs.copy()
defaults['initial'] = initial_defaults 

Answer 2

You might want to specify Django-1.3 development, generic class view doesn't exist in Django 1.2.5. In your forms.py file, can you comment the following lines and try again:

class UpdateForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = Foo

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        #kwargs.setdefault('initial', {})
        #kwargs['initial'].update({'bug': 'WHY??'})
        super(UpdateForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)