Django formset set current user

Question

Related to this question, but expanding on it - How would I use this technique in a formset?

I'd like to use the current logged in user in a form, but I'm using the form in a formset. The referenced solution for a single form is to pass request.user to the form and process in init. How do I add to the kwargs for each form in the formset?

Example in my code:

in forms.py

class NewStudentForm (forms.Form):
    username = forms.RegexField(label=_("Username"), max_length=30, regex=r'^\w+$',
        help_text = _("Required. 30 characters or fewer. Alphanumeric characters only (letters, digits and underscores)."),
        error_message = _("This value must contain only letters, numbers and underscores."))
    first_name = forms.CharField(label=_('first name'), max_length=30 )
    last_name = forms.CharField(label=_('last name'), max_length=30, )
    email = forms.EmailField(label=_('e-mail address') )
    password = forms.CharField(label=_('password'), max_length=64, )

    class Meta:
        model = User
        fields = ("username","first_name", "last_name", "email", "password")

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        self._user = kwargs.pop('user')
        super(NewStudentForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)


    def save(self, commit=True):
        user = super(NewStudentForm, self).save(commit=False)
        user.set_password(self.cleaned_data["password"])
        if commit:
            user.save()
            profile = Profile.objects.create_profile(user)
            profile.activiation_key = profile.ACTIVATED_KEY
            profile.authorized = True
            profile.save()
            user.is_active=True
            user.save()
            student = models.Student()
            student.user = user
            student.teacher = self._user
            student.plaintext_pwd = self.cleaned_data["password"]
            student.save()
        return UserWarning

then in views.py

@login_required
def new_student(request):
    from django.forms.formsets import formset_factory
    try:
        if request.method == 'GET':
            newStudentFormset = formset_factory(forms.NewStudentForm, extra=2)
            formset = newStudentFormset()
            return shortcuts.render_to_response('NewStudent.html', { 'newStudentFormSet':formset, 'active_username': request.user.username })
        elif request.method == 'POST':
            if LOGIN_FORM_KEY in request.POST:
                return _handle_login(request)
            data = request.POST.copy()
            newStudentFormset = formset_factory(forms.NewStudentForm)
            formset = newStudentFormset(data) ### Pass current user to formset? ###
            if formset.is_valid():
                formset.save()
                request.user.message_set.create(message="Save successful.")
                return shortcuts.redirect(student)
            else:
                return shortcuts.render_to_response('NewStudent.html', { 'newStudentFormSet':formset, 'active_username': request.user.username, 'error_message':formset.errors})
        return http.HttpResponseNotAllowed(['GET', 'POST'])
    except models.Student.DoesNotExist:
        return http.HttpResponseNotFound('<h1>Requested Student not found</h1>')

Answer 1

By adding a class that extends BaseFormSet you can add custom code to pass a parameter to the form.

in forms.py:

class NewStudentFormSet(BaseFormSet):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        self.user = kwargs.pop('user', None)
        super(NewStudentFormSet, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

    def _construct_forms(self): 
        self.forms = []
        for i in xrange(self.total_form_count()):
            self.forms.append(self._construct_form(i, user=self.user))

Then in views.py:

# ...

data = request.POST.copy()
newStudentFormset = formset_factory(forms.NewStudentForm, formset=forms.NewStudentFormSet)
formset = newStudentFormset(data, user=request.user)

# ...

Thanks to Ashok Raavi.