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djangoformsvalidation
Baama
Baama

Reputation: 2642

Accessing request.user outside views.py

I have a file forms.py where I define all my forms. I need to do a password validation on one of my form fields.

In my forms.py

class ChangePasswordForm(forms.Form):
    old_password = forms.CharField(widget=forms.PasswordInput)
    new_password= forms.CharField(widget=forms.PasswordInput)
    new_password_again= forms.CharField(widget=forms.PasswordInput)

    def clean_old_password(self):
        data = self.cleaned_data['old_password']
        if data != currently_logged_in_user.password:
            raise forms.ValidationError("Password Incorrect")

        return data

I need to get access to the currently logged in user so I can use currently_logged_in_user.password for the validation but am currently working in forms.py not views.py so I dont know how to do so? Help please

Upvotes: 3

Views: 935

Answers (1)

San4ez
San4ez

Reputation: 8241

You need to pass user from views to your form. You can do this way:

views.py

my_form = ChangePasswordForm(user=request.user, data=request.POST)
...

forms.py

class ChangePasswordForm(forms.Form):
    ...

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        self.user = kwargs.pop('user', None)
        super(ChangePasswordForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

    def clean_old_password(self):
        old_password = self.cleaned_data['old_password']
        if not self.user.check_password(old_password)
            raise forms.ValidationError("Password Incorrect")
        return old_password

Upvotes: 2

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