Looks like I was missing an `initial` inside init... 0_o
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1993014/passing-kwargs-to-django-form
On Friday, June 22, 2018 at 9:37:26 PM UTC-4, HashRocketSyntax wrote:
>
> When I call my form in my view, I am trying to pass MY_VALUE to the form
> as an argument.
>
> I am doing this because I want to get my validation out of my views and
> into my forms.
>
> *views.py*
> OTHER_VALUE = "the query that i run"
> if request.method=='POST':
> form = MY_FORM(request.POST, OTHER_VALUE)
>
> *forms.py*
> class MY_FORM(forms.Form):
>
> real_value = forms.CharField()
> def clean_real_value(self):
> if OTHER_VALUE ...
>
>
> *This throws the error:*
> __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'OTHER_VALUE'
>
>
> =========
>
> I've tried setting the init with kwargs
> class MY_FORM(forms.Form):
> real_value = forms.CharField()
>
> def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
> OTHER_VALUE = kwargs.pop('OTHER_VALUE')
> super(MY_FORM, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
>
>
> error:
> Exception Value: 'employee'
> Exception Location: /Users/macbook/Desktop/OrgDB/orgchart/forms.py in
> __init__, line 42
>
>
>
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