[Answered ]-Get_form_kwargs being omitted

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Django’s ModelAdmin has no get_form_kwargs, yes I know that is strange, since it has a .get_formset_kwargs(…) [Django-doc]. But, well, the ModelAdmin is a bit of a misfeature, especially since it is a collection of different views, but it basically violates all patterns the Django views implement. For example it does not make an instance of the view, so self.request is not accessible, since that is the ModelAdmin, not the view object.

We can do this, but it is ugly, no, really. First we update the form to use self._user as attribute:

class SomeForm(forms.ModelForm):
    _user = None

    class Meta:
        model = Process
        fields = ['start', 'end', 'result', 'description', 'user']

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.fields['user'].initial = self._user

and now we can each time subclass is and inject the user as attribute:

class SomeAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):

    def get_form(self, reqmuest, obj=None, change=False, **kwargs):
        class SubSomeForm(SomeForm):
            _user = request.user
        return SomeSubForm

and that will be the working mechanism.

👤willeM_ Van Onsem

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