Customized change password and reset password

Using Django Forms & APIs
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I have been working on creating a customized forgot password and reset password form using django’s inbuilt password change and reset view
But I am getting below error


 File "/Users/mind1/PycharmProjects/E-commerce/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/django/core/handlers/exception.py", line 47, in inner
    response = get_response(request)
  File "/Users/mind1/PycharmProjects/E-commerce/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 181, in _get_response
    response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
  File "/Users/mind1/PycharmProjects/E-commerce/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/decorators.py", line 21, in _wrapped_view
    return view_func(request, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/mind1/PycharmProjects/E-commerce/users/views.py", line 110, in change_password
    if form.is_valid():
  File "/Users/mind1/PycharmProjects/E-commerce/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/django/forms/forms.py", line 177, in is_valid
    return self.is_bound and not self.errors
  File "/Users/mind1/PycharmProjects/E-commerce/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/django/forms/forms.py", line 172, in errors
    self.full_clean()
  File "/Users/mind1/PycharmProjects/E-commerce/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/django/forms/forms.py", line 374, in full_clean
    self._clean_fields()
  File "/Users/mind1/PycharmProjects/E-commerce/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/django/forms/forms.py", line 386, in _clean_fields
    value = field.widget.value_from_datadict(self.data, self.files, self.add_prefix(name))
  File "/Users/mind1/PycharmProjects/E-commerce/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/django/forms/widgets.py", line 258, in value_from_datadict
    return data.get(name)
AttributeError: 'ChangePasswordForm' object has no attribute 'get'

views.py

 form = ChangePasswordForm(request.user,request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            form.save()
            # Logs out the current user from the session
            logger.info("Password of user with name {0} edited successfully".format(request.user.username))
            messages.success(request, message="Password changed successfully")
            return redirect('login')



class ChangePasswordForm(PasswordChangeForm):
    old_password = forms.CharField(
        strip=False,
        widget=forms.PasswordInput(
            attrs={'autocomplete': 'current-password', 'autofocus': True, 'class': 'form-control',
                   'placeholder': 'Old Password'}),
    )
    new_password1 = forms.CharField(
        widget=forms.PasswordInput(
            attrs={'autocomplete': 'new-password', 'class': 'form-control', 'placeholder': 'New Password'}),
        strip=False,
        help_text=password_validation.password_validators_help_text_html(),
    )
    new_password2 = forms.CharField(
        strip=False,
        widget=forms.PasswordInput(
            attrs={'autocomplete': 'new-password', 'class': 'form-control', 'placeholder': 'Confirm password'}),
    )
1 Like
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That is not how you create a form from a request. There’s no request.user parameter in the standard form constructor. If necessary, review the docs at Working with forms | Django documentation | Django

3

Thanks for replying @KenWhitesell

So, How should I pass user object to django’s inbuilt PasswordChangeForm?

4

Why do you need the User in the Form?

The processing of the password supplied to the form is done in the view, not in the form.