User of the current user in new Django view forms

Question

I am using django 1.3 on trunk and starting to learn class representations.

I had this:

class Project(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=90)
    slug = models.CharField(max_length=90)
    description = models.TextField()
    owner = models.ForeignKey(User)

class ProjectForm(ModelForm):

    class Meta:
        model = Project
        exclude = ('owner',)
        widgets = {
            'description': Textarea(attrs={'cols': 40, 'rows': 20}),
        }

class ProjectCreateView(CreateView):
    model = Project
    form_class = ProjectForm

    def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        return super(ProjectCreateView, self).get(request, *args, **kwargs)

    def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        return super(ProjectCreateView, self).post(request, *args, **kwargs)

I am trying to get a form using model forms from django excluding the owner field to get the value of the field after the request.user property.

The form as it works. But how can you make sure ModelForm uses request.user for the Project.owner field?

My first assumption was to override the get_form_kwargs method from the view

class ProjectCreateView(CreateView):

    # .....

    def get_form_kwargs(self, **kwargs):
        self.initial['owner': self.request.user})
        kwargs = super(ProjectCreateView, self).get_form_kwargs(**kwargs)
        return kwargs

But it does not seem to affect the data used by the model form

Answer 1

get_form_kwargs dict - self.initial, kwargs:

def get_form_kwargs(self, **kwargs):
    kwargs = super(ProjectCreateView, self).get_form_kwargs(**kwargs)
    kwargs['initial']['owner'] = self.request.user
    return kwargs