Url key word argument within CreateView

Question

How do I get a URL keyword argument with get() or another method of CreateView? I tried to use self.kwargs['arg_name'], but without result. Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

You can access url keywords in view by using following code

Method one

To access the url parameters in class based views, use self.args or self.kwargs so you would access it by doing self.kwargs['user_id']

url(r'^users/(?P<user_id>[0-9]+)/$',
views.your_view_name.as_view()),

In youe views.py:

class your_class_name(CreateView):
    def view_name(self):
        upk=self.kwargs.get['user_id']
        print user_id
        ...

Method 2

If you are passing keyword in url like this

/your_url?user_id=1

views.py

def view_name(request):
    user_id = request.GET.get('user_id')
    print user_id
    ....

Reference from Stackoverflow Link

hope this helps you

Answer 2

Do you mean this ?

class CreateMessageView(LoginRequiredMixin, CreateView):

    def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        ret = super(CreateMessageView, self).get(request, *args, **kwargs)
        upk=self.kwargs['user_id']
        return ret

I have tested it... working ... NIKHILS RANEs answer is somewhat correct. this line upk=self.kwargs['user_id'] differs from his upk=self.kwargs.get['user_id']. Maybe thats your problem