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Chymdy
Chymdy

Reputation: 660

How to populate django form with selection from your models

I have a CreateSong CBV in Django that allows me to create song objects to a model. My question is, in the form I created for the view, how do I make the album column to be auto-populated with albums the user-created only? I get errors calling "self" that way.

See my views below

  class CreateSong(CreateView):
    model = Song
    fields = [album, song_title]
    fields['album'].queryset = Album.objects.filter(owner=self.request.user)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 61

Answers (2)

fekioh
fekioh

Reputation: 996

You do not have access to self.request.user, because you are calling it at class level, thus when the class is being defined and not when the view is actually called. Instead you should override the get_form method as in Davit's answer.

Upvotes: 0

Davit Tovmasyan
Davit Tovmasyan

Reputation: 3588

I think you should override get_form. See the example below:

class CreateSong(CreateView):
    model = Song
    fields = [album, song_title]

    def get_form(self):
        form = super().get_form()
        form.fields['album'].queryset = Album.objects.filter(owner=self.request.user)
        return form

Upvotes: 1

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