Question

In my implementation of ModelForm, I would like to perform different types of validation checks based on whether current user is superuser. How can I access the current request user?

Answer 1

you can pass the user object as an extra argument in the form constructor.

e.g.

f = MyForm(user=request.user)

and the constructor will look like:

class MyForm(forms.ModelForm):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
         self.user = kwargs.pop('user',None)
         super(MyForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

and then use user in the clean_XX forms as you wish