I am trying to bind my FormView to show the Form in djangocms but i am not able to - django-cms

Question

I am trying to bind my FormView to show the Form in djangocms but I am not able to,
my model is:
class ContactFormView(FormView, CMSPlugin):
template = '/ContactForm/ContactForm.html'
form_class = contact_form
success_url = reverse_lazy('success-page')
def post(self, request, **kwargs):
assert request.is_ajax()
request_data = json.loads(request.body)
form = self.form_class(data=request_data[self.form_class.scope_prefix])
if form.is_valid():
return JsonResponse({'success_url': force_text(self.success_url)})
else:
response_data = {form.form_name: form.errors}
return JsonResponse(response_data, status=422)
cms_plugins.py:
class ContactFormPlugin(CMSPluginBase):
model = ContactForm.ContactFormView
render_template = '/ContactForm/ContactForm.html'
name = 'Contact Form'
allow_children = False
plugin_pool.register_plugin(ContactFormPlugin)

Answer 1

Looking at what you've got there, I'm not sure you've given your plugin a proper model but a view!? And the form class isn't a form class, form_class = contact_form but what is contact_form? You need it to be the class of your form e.g.
class ContactForm(forms.Form):
name = forms.CharField(label='Your name', max_length=100)
email = forms.EmailField(label='Your email', max_length=100)
class ContactFormView(FormView):
template = '/ContactForm/ContactForm.html'
form_class = ContactForm
success_url = reverse_lazy('success-page')
And if you've got a form you want your plugin to render, you need to tell it what to do...
from cms.models.pluginmodel import CMSPlugin
class ContactFormPlugin(CMSPluginBase):
model = CMSPlugin
render_template = '/ContactForm/ContactForm.html'
name = 'Contact Form'
allow_children = False
def render(self, context, instance, placeholder):
context = super(ContactFormPlugin, self).render(context, instance, placeholder)
context['form'] = ContactForm()
return context
However you're working with a CMS plugin, so you don't define a View at all for a plugin. I think you could make this do what you're trying to do but the view doesn't want to inherit CMSPlugin because you just want a view to receive data from the plugin.
If you need to define views then you're building an app which in CMS requires an Apphook, not a plugin. (Technically you could post to a URL without an Apphook, but depends how much CMS integration you want)
There is a great example that starts with a plugin posting to a view then progresses into the app integration which is possible here; http://docs.django-cms.org/en/latest/introduction/plugins.html