I have a form which has is an instance of some model X.Now how can I access the form's instance in a view provided that I'm handling form submission(POST) in another view.One view is used to create the form and other view is used to process the form.
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From the documentation
Also, a model form instance bound to a model object will contain a self.instance attribute that gives model form methods access to that specific model instance.
def myview(request):
if request.method == "POST":
form = MyModelForm(request.POST,request.FILES)
# form.instance -- this is the model
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You can simply pass the form object off to the secondary view:
def view_one(request, slug):
if request.method == 'POST':
obj = get_object_or_404(Model, slug=slug)
model_form = MyModelForm(request.POST, instance = obj)
return view_two(request, form=model_form)
def view_two(request, form=None):
if form:
obj = form.save(commit=False)
obj.some_attribute = "Foo"
obj.save()
return render_to_response(...)
