get request data in Django form

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As ars and Diarmuid have pointed out, you can pass request.user into your form, and use it in validating the email. Diarmuid’s code, however, is wrong. The code should actually read:

from django import forms

class UserForm(forms.Form):
    email_address = forms.EmailField(
        widget=forms.TextInput(
            attrs={
                'class': 'required'
            }
        )
    )

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

    def clean_email_address(self):
        email = self.cleaned_data.get('email_address')

        if self.user and self.user.email == email:
            return email

        if UserProfile.objects.filter(email=email).count():
            raise forms.ValidationError(
                u'That email address already exists.'
            )

        return email

Then, in your view, you can use it like so:

def someview(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = UserForm(request.POST, user=request.user)
        if form.is_valid():
            # Do something with the data
            pass
    else:
        form = UserForm(user=request.user)
    # Rest of your view follows

Note that you should pass request.POST as a keyword argument, since your constructor expects ‘user’ as the first positional argument.

Doing it this way, you need to pass user as a keyword argument. You can either pass request.POST as a positional argument, or a keyword argument (via data=request.POST).

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