Hello-
I was wondering if it would be reasonable to modify the
`django.views.generic.edit.ProcessFormView` class, such that the `post()`
function calls a (hypothetical) `self.validate_form(form)` function rather
than directly calling `form.is_valid()`. The default implementation of
`validate_form()` would of course be to call `form.is_valid()`, to maintain
backwards compatibility.
Background:
I am writing an application where a model (I'll call it `Thing`) has a
ForeignKey to User and a CharField ("name"), among some other fields. I
would like "name" to be unique for any given user; I'm using
`unique_together` in `class Meta:` to accomplish this. I have a CreateView
subclass which allows users to create new Things; the `user` field is
excluded from the form, and automatically set in the View. I was previously
doing this in the `form_valid` function, but realized that this is being
called after the form is already validated (without a User). By the time
the object is saved to the database, the `user
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