Submitting a form with GET using Django's FormView
Let me just put it out there. I'm one of those people who think submitting form data with GET is a perfectly reasonable thing to do when implementing search functionality. If you use Django and think like I think, then you should know the following: This behavior is not currently implemented for Django's generic FormView (dpkg -l python-django tells me I'm using 1.3-2). Submitting a form using GET will provide no form validation. Luckily for us, Django's class-based views were designed to be customized and extended, and thanks to Daniel Swarbrick, we have some code to do just that:
def get_form_kwargs(self): kwargs = {'initial': self.get_initial()} if self.request.GET: kwargs['data'] = self.request.GET return kwargs
This method can either be provided by a shiny-new MixIn class or it can be added as an override to an existing FormView. If you're asking me for my opinion on which way to go, then I'll give it: I prefer the MixIn approach because it's simple and reusable :)