Django contect_object_name is not producing a contect dict in view

I am back with more django questions on CBVs. This is about context_object_name. I have the following:

context_object_name

@method_decorator(verified_email_required, name='dispatch')
class Create(CreateView):
model = Profile
context_object_name = 'profileForm'
template_name = 'Members/template_includes/profile/form.html'
form_class = ProfileForm
success_url = '/Members'
form_title = "New Login Profile Information"

def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
return render(request, self.template_name,
'profileTitle': self.form_title,
)


I am using PyCharm and can put a breakpoint in the template_name form and see what the environment knows about. I expect to see a dict named profileForm with all the form members in it plus profileTitle. Instead I see profileTitle as a standalone member. I do not see anything named profileForm or object_list and the expected form members are not being painted in the template.

template_name

profileForm

profileTitle

profileTitle

profileForm

object_list

I suppose that I understand that the extra content in the return render will pass a "naked" profileTitle but I did expect that the default get behaviour would pull in the form info.

return render

profileTitle

get

Have I missed the point?

1 Answer
1

You've overridden the get method in your CreateView-subclass and in doing so, you've bypassed the included functionality that a CreateView does to fill your context. If you take a look here you can see that a CreateView would otherwise call return self.render_to_response(self.get_context_data()) (because it inherits from ProcessFormView) and it's within get_context_data() (ref) that those included context variables are set up.

get

CreateView

CreateView

CreateView

return self.render_to_response(self.get_context_data())

get_context_data()

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