Django: Accessing request in forms.py clean function
You can overwrite the FormMixin's get_form_kwargs method to add the request for to the form's init parameters:
class ItemCreate(FormView): def get_form_kwargs(self): kwargs = super(ItemCreate, self).get_form_kwargs() kwargs.update({ 'request' : self.request }) return kwargs
Overriding the form.get_initial() works for me
class ItemCreate(FormView): def get_initial(self): init = super(ItemCreate, self).get_initial() init.update({'request':self.request}) return initAnd in the clean we can access it with form.initial dict
class sampleForm(forms.Form): ... ... def clean(self): user_request = self.initial['request']By the way, we don't need to pop the extra args like suggested above.