[FEATURE] Easily render django forms in component templates instead of manually typing in each field.

[Nizzy94]

Why do we need this improvement?

In most of my Django projects, I render my form from the view, and I believe most of the Django developers out there use it to make life easier. here is the case: I have customised all my Django form controls(inputs, select, textarea, etc.) using tailwind, and I wanted to use it in a unicorn template, but then I got an error that says the form is not JSON serialisable. this is a form I am using on other parts of the site, so I do the same. I can't just type out the whole thing again.

How will this change help?

if there is a way to not serialise the form so that it goes straight to the template as a Django form and not JSON data, that would help. then, in the unicorn view, we can do the validation and submission, etc.

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How could it be implemented/designed?

I'm not sure if this would work, but sending two forms of data to the template makes sense. serialized data, and python data.

another option is to add a method that will create a dictionary from the form_class attribute, containing all the essential data needed to render the form.

Will this be a breaking change?

• Yes
• No

[Nizzy94]

I did some workarounds and finally got the form to go through. I had to override the get_context_data method. but there are still some issues.

1. get_context_data() does not have self.request, which my form requires to perform some actions. i had to give an attribute to my view class, assign the request to it, and get it in the get_context_data. (i believe there should be an easier way).

2. The second issue is, in unicorn_view.py (from the the package), _get_form only accepts data, but no kwargs. and since it doesn't, the form class assigned to the form_class attribute is giving an error. i have no way of passing the request to the form_class to avoid the error i am getting from the server.

`class MyView(UnicornView):
form_class = MyForm
_request = None

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def get_context_data(self, *args, **kwargs):
    context = super().get_context_data(*args, **kwargs)
    context["form"] = self.form_class(request=self._request)
    return context

def mount(self, *args, **kwargs):
    self._request = self.request

`

form_class = MyForm is where the problem is. because i can't pass request in there, the form is getting request as non, but works well with context["form"] = self.form_class(request=self._request)