How to get the submitted value of a form in a Django class-based view?

Question

I have a Django form that looks like this:

class myForm(forms.Form):
    email = forms.EmailField(
        label="Email",
        max_length=254,
        required=True,
    )

I have a an associated Class-Based FormView as shown below. I can see that the form is succesfully validating the data and flow is getting into the form_valid() method below. What I need to know is how to get the value that the user submitted in the email field. form.fields['email'].value doesn't work.

class myFormView(FormView):
    template_name = 'myTemplate.html'
    form_class = myForm
    success_url = "/blahblahblah"


    def form_valid(self, form):
        # How Do I get the submitted values of the form fields here?
        # I would like to do a log.debug() of the email address?
        return super(myFormView, self).form_valid(form)

score 24 · Accepted Answer · edited May 14 '20 at 07:40

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You can check the form's cleaned_data attribute, which will be a dictionary with your fields as keys and values as values. Docs here.

Example:

class myFormView(FormView):
    template_name = 'myTemplate.html'
    form_class = myForm
    success_url = "/blahblahblah"


    def form_valid(self, form):
        email = form.cleaned_data['email']  # <--- Add this line to get email value
        return super(myFormView, self).form_valid(form)

edited May 14 '20 at 07:40

djvg

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answered Aug 02 '14 at 00:06

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what if the form contains a many to many field? How do you retrieve all values submitted in class based views? – Abishek Jan 31 '20 at 13:22
My model generated a randomly generated slug. I need to retrieve this slug so the user can see the URL to the item created via an Email. How can I do this? – Surveyor Jr May 23 '22 at 12:17

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 02 '14 at 00:31

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try this:

 form.cleaned_data.get('email')

answered Aug 02 '14 at 00:31

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How to get the submitted value of a form in a Django class-based view?

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