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Reputation: 1

Is there a way to save form input to class self in django?

I have a form class where I ask for a username and password. I created my own authenticate function. I simply want to pass the username and password input to the authenticate function. I've tried saving it as self.user/self.pw or passing it directly.

Thanks in advance!

I am using Django lockdown. I don't need to save the username and password to a database because I'm using my own authentication function.

class loginform(forms.Form):

    username = forms.CharField ...
    password = forms.CharField... 


    def authenticate(self, request, username, password):
        print("this actually prints")
        '''authenticate with passed username and password'''

Upvotes: 0

Views: 58

Answers (1)

ruddra
ruddra

Reputation: 52018

You can access them through cleaned_data attribute of the class. For example:

class loginform(forms.Form):  # Please use PascalCase when defining class name(as per pep-8 style guide)
    # rest of the code...

    def authenticate(self, request):
        username = self.cleaned_data.get('username')
        password = self.cleaned_data.get('password')

Upvotes: 0

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