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Combined CreateView and UpdateView

Author:
dannygale
Posted:
June 19, 2015
Language:
Python
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By combining the CreateView and UpdateView, you can significantly reduce repetition when processing complex forms (for example, with multiple inline formsets), by only writing the get_context_data and form_valid functions once.

This class can be used just like a normal CreateView or UpdateView.

Note that if you're trying to use it as an UpdateView but it cannot find the requested object, it will behave as a CreateView, rather than showing a 404 page.

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#############################################################################
#
# Create/Update view
#
#############################################################################
from django.views.generic.detail import SingleObjectTemplateResponseMixin
from django.views.generic.edit import ModelFormMixin, ProcessFormView
class CreateUpdateView(SingleObjectTemplateResponseMixin, ModelFormMixin,
        ProcessFormView):

    def get_object(self, queryset=None):
        try:
            return super(CreateUpdateView,self).get_object(queryset)
        except AttributeError:
            return None

    def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        self.object = self.get_object()
        return super(CreateUpdateView, self).get(request, *args, **kwargs)

    def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        self.object = self.get_object()
        return super(CreateUpdateView, self).post(request, *args, **kwargs)

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