Django - User not passing through form - django

Question

I am making an auction site and I try passing the user who posted a bid on a listing through a form. I already asked this about passing the creator of a listing and I tried the same method but I cannot manage to do it.
My view looks something like this (I shortened it because it's very long):
def show_listing(request, listing_id):
listing = AuctionListing.objects.get(id=listing_id)
bidding = listing.bidlisting.last()
if bidding is None:
field_name = "starting_bid"
starting_bid = getattr(listing, field_name)
createbidform = CreateBid(initial={"bids": starting_bid, "user":request.user})
else:
field_name2 = "bids"
highest_bid = getattr(bidding, field_name2)
createbidform = CreateBid(initial={"bids": highest_bid, "user":request.user})
if request.method == "POST":
form = CreateBid(request.POST)
if bidding is None and float(form['bids'].value()) >= float(starting_bid):
if form.is_valid():
message = "Your bid is placed"
form.instance.listing = listing
form.save()
createbidform = CreateBid(initial={"bids": form['bids'].value(), "user":request.user})
amount_bids = len(Bid.objects.filter(listing=listing_id))
return render(request, "auctions/listing.html", {
"createbidform" : createbidform
})
else:
print(form.errors)
return render(request, "auctions/listing.html", {
"bidform" : createbidform
})
listing.html looks something like this:
<form method="POST">
{% csrf_token %}
${{ bidform.bids }}
<button type="submit" name="bidbid" class="btn btn-primary save btn-sm">Place your bid</button>
</form>
RIGHT NOW form.errors prints:
<ul class="errorlist"><li>user<ul class="errorlist"><li>This field is required.</li></ul></li></ul>
Here is the model Bid:
class Bid(models.Model):
listing = models.ForeignKey(AuctionListing, on_delete=models.CASCADE, related_name="bidlisting")
bids = models.DecimalField(max_digits=6, decimal_places=2)
user = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE, db_constraint=False, related_name="userrr")
def __str__(self):
return str(self.bids)
And here is the form CreateBid:
class CreateBid(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Bid
fields = ('bids', 'user')
widgets = {
'user': forms.HiddenInput(),
}
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
user = kwargs.pop('user')
super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
self.fields['user'].initial = user.id
For some reason it doesn't provide the user who posted the bidding to the form, causing the form to not be valid. How to fix this?

Answer 1

You already do it with bids so you don't need extra kwarg:
createbidform = CreateBid(initial={'bids': starting_bid, 'user': request.user})
you can remove __init__ method form CreateBid form class
Template:
<form method="POST">
{% csrf_token %}
${{ bidform }}
<button type="submit" name="bidbid" class="btn btn-primary save btn-sm">Place your bid</button>
</form>