On Wednesday, February 6, 2013 3:09:39 PM UTC-5, Some Developer wrote:
>
> Why doesn't the form_valid() (and for that matter the form_invalid()) 
> method in the FormView generic class based view take a request argument? 
>
> I've found that if you have a form which requires you to override the 
> form_valid() method because you need to do custom logic before you save 
> the model and you need to save the user ID of the person who posted the 
> form you need to also override the post() method in order to pass on the 
> correct data by manually adding it to the post argument of the 
> form_valid() method by using request.user. 
>
> Am I missing something here? Is there any easier way to achieve what I 
> want to achieve? 
>


How about using self.request attribute?  -rainy

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