Class Based View for User Registraion

Using Django Getting Started
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Which Class Based View is perfect for User Registration ?

from django.views.generic.edit import FormView

or

from django.views import View

Is there any other Class Based View for User Registration ?

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I don’t know about “perfect”, but of the Django-provided CBVs, it seems to me that CreateView would be the closest fit for a User Registration page. (You’re creating a User object from the form.)

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Thanks @KenWhitesell . Actually I used FormView view before. Now I am trying to use View. I am found that View is not so helpful like FormView. That’s why I asked that.

Which one do you use for User Registration ?

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For my personal projects, it’s CreateView.

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FormView just displays a specified form (as per the form_class attribute) and redirects to a specified page when the submitted form validates OK (assuming the submit method was POST). View is extremely basic. Neither Formview nor View deals with a model object (but you could always override the form_valid() method in FormView to alter the model object). View leaves you to do all the extra work which may be okay when you want full control.

Otherwise, CreateView gives you everything that FormView does but with the added advantage of altering/saving the associated model object.

Check out this resource for more understanding of Class-Based Views.

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