views.generic.edit.FormMixin

class django.views.generic.edit.FormMixin

A mixin class that provides facilities for creating and displaying forms.

Mixins

• django.views.generic.base.ContextMixin

Methods and Attributes

initial

A dictionary containing initial data for the form.

form_class

The form class to instantiate.

success_url

The URL to redirect to when the form is successfully processed.

prefix

The prefix for the generated form.

get_initial()

Retrieve initial data for the form. By default, returns a copy of initial.

get_form_class()

Retrieve the form class to instantiate. By default form_class.

get_form(form_class=None)

Instantiate an instance of form_class using get_form_kwargs(). If form_class isn’t provided get_form_class() will be used.

get_form_kwargs()

Build the keyword arguments required to instantiate the form.

The initial argument is set to get_initial(). If the request is a POST or PUT, the request data (request.POST and request.FILES) will also be provided.

get_prefix()

Determine the prefix for the generated form. Returns prefix by default.

get_success_url()

Determine the URL to redirect to when the form is successfully validated. Returns success_url by default.

form_valid(form)

Redirects to get_success_url().

form_invalid(form)

Renders a response, providing the invalid form as context.

get_context_data(**kwargs)

New in Django 1.9.

Calls get_form() and adds the result to the context data with the name ‘form’.