Accessing POST data from plain HTML form in Django CBV

Question

Accessing GET data from a plain HTML form in a Class-Based TemplateView is straightforward. I'm currently doing it like the following:

class SomeView(TemplateView):

    template_name = 'some-template.html'

    def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        if request.GET:
            # do things...

        context = self.get_context_data(**kwargs)
        return self.render_to_response(context)

But I'm wondering how I can access POST data. I have tried using get_context_data() to check for posted form data...but have been unsuccessful.

Question: Can POSTed form data from a plain HTML form (not a Django form) be accessed via a TemplateView?

Answer 1

There's no difference in the way the data is sent between a Django form and anything else: it's in request.POST as always.

Naturally, you need to define the post method, rather than get.