Question

Is it possible to use django class based generic views with a ManyToManyField relation? For example adding an “Entry” to a “Category”:

class Category(models.Model):
    title           = models.CharField()
    slug            = models.CharField()
    description     = models.TextField()
    entry           = models.ManyToManyField(Entry,null=True,blank=True)


url(r'^category/(?P<pk>\d+)/add', CreateView.as_view(model=Entry?????),

Here I want to add a new Entry to an existing Category instance.

Answer 1

Use CreateView to create the Entry, and then add id to a category by overriding the form_valid() method.