Took a little bit of digging to figure this one out. If you’re using a ModelForm along with django.contrib.auth.models.User (or a customized User model), you’ll want to use the instance that is sitting in the request rather than allowing the ModelForm to create a new instance.
To do this, simply override the get_form_kwargs method in the view:
| class MyView(UpdateView): | |
| template_name = 'user.html' | |
| form_class = UserForm | |
| success_url = reverse_lazy('success') | |
| def get_form_kwargs(self): | |
| kwargs = super(MyView, self).get_form_kwargs() | |
| kwargs['instance'] = self.request.user | |
| return kwargs |
