Question

Is it possible to manually add field entries to an object that has been created with the generic view?

Eg,

from django.views.generic.create_update import create_object

def create_thing(request):

    queryset = Things.objects.all()

    #Somehow pass something to tell the view to
    #assign Thing.author=request.user...

    return create_object(
        request,
        queryset,
        form_class = ThingForm,
        template_name = 'thing_template.html',
        )

Ta!

Answer 1

Sorry, no. You’ll have to write your own view.

Here’s the source – you can see that there’s no callback or anything, and nothing that gets passed both the request (so you can access request.user) and the new_object that you could possibly override to do the assignment.