django-generic-views

I used Django's generic createview for my model from myproject.app.forms import PersonForm class PersonMixin(object): model = Person form_class = PersontForm class PersonCreateView(PersonMixin, CreateView): pass This works perfectly for displaying a create view of Person with my custom form. However, I have a field in the form that I want to pre-populate with a value. I found this answer: Set initial value to modelform in class based generic views However, my pre-populated value comes from the profile for request.user. How do I access the request in PersonCreateView and pass that to the form?

With django generic CreateView I can create a new user account, but how can I login this user automatically after registration using this technique? urls.py ... url( r'^signup/$', SignUpView.as_view(), name = 'user_signup' ), ... views.py class SignUpView ( CreateView ) : form_class = AccountCreationForm template_name = 'accounts/signup.html' success_url = reverse_lazy( 'home' ) forms.py class AccountCreationForm ( forms.ModelForm ) : def __init__( self, *args, **kwargs ) : super( AccountCreationForm, self ).__init__( *args, **kwargs ) for field in self.fields : self.fields[field].widget.attrs

I use Django's built-in DeleteView and I've assigned a value to the success_url attribute. Now in my template, I trigger this view via JQuery' $.post() method. When the item is deleted, I don't get redirected to the success_url . After some search, I found that it seems to be a problem of AJAX post method, which ignores the redirection. I fixed it by adding a function to set the window.location="#myRedirectionURL" as the third parameter of $.post() in JQuery. However, this way seems not very Django. Essentially, it solves the problem from the aspect of AJAX, instead of Django. What's more, it

I have a problem creating an URL view in django. It gives me this error (ferrol is a Space object): TypeError at /spaces/ferrol/ 'str' object is not callable Request Method: GET Request URL: http://localhost:8000/spaces/ferrol/ Django Version: 1.2.3 Exception Type: TypeError Exception Value: 'str' object is not callable Exception Location: /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Django-1.2.3-py2.6.egg/django/core/handlers/base.py in get_response, line 100 Here is the code: spaces/models.py class Space(models.Model): """ Basic spaces model. """ name = models.CharField(_('Name'), max_length=100,

So I have a model that includes: class Place(models.Model): .... created_by = models.ForeignKey(User) My view is like so: class PlaceFormView(CreateView): form_class = PlaceForm @method_decorator(login_required) def dispatch(self, *args, **kwargs): return super(PlaceFormView, self).dispatch(*args, **kwargs) Is there a way for me to access request.user and set created_by to that user? I've looked through the docs, but can't seem to find any hints toward this. ` How about overriding form_valid which does the form saving? Save it yourself, do whatever you want to it, then do the redirect. class

I have a custom class-based view # myapp/views.py from django.views.generic import * class MyView(DetailView): template_name = 'detail.html' model = MyModel def get_object(self, queryset=None): return queryset.get(slug=self.slug) I want to pass in the slug parameter (or other parameters to the view) like this MyView.as_view(slug='hello_world') Do I need to override any methods to be able to do this? If your urlconf looks something like this: url(r'^(?P<slug>[a-zA-Z0-9-]+)/$', MyView.as_view(), name = 'my_named_view') then the slug will be available inside your view functions (such as 'get