Django combine DetailView and FormView

One solution would be to use mixins, as per limelights' comment above.

Another approach is to have two separate views, one a DetailView and the other a FormView. Then, in the template for the former, display the same form you're using in the latter, except that you won't leave the action attribute empty -- instead, set it to the url for the FormView. Something along the lines of this (please beware of any errors as I'm writing this without any testing):

In views.py:

class MyDetailView(DetailView):
    model = MyModel
    template_name = 'my_detail_view.html'

    def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
        context = super(MyDetailView, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)
        context['form'] = MyFormClass
        return context

class MyFormView(FormView):
    form_class = MyFormClass
    success_url = 'go/here/if/all/works'

In my_detail_view.html:

<!-- some representation of the MyModel object -->

<form method="post" action="{% url "my_form_view_url" %}">

{{ form }}

</form>

In urls.py:

# ...
url('^my_model/(?P<pk>\d+)/$', MyDetailView.as_view(), name='my_detail_view_url'),
url('^my_form/$', require_POST(MyFormView.as_view()), name='my_form_view_url'),
# ...

Note that the require_POST decorator is optional, in the case that you don't want the MyFormView to be accessible by GET and want it only to be processed when the form is submitted.

Django also has a rather lengthy documentation about this problem.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/topics/class-based-views/mixins/#using-formmixin-with-detailview

They advise to make 2 different views, and have the detail view refer to the form view on post.

I'm currently seeing if this hack might work:

class MyDetailFormView(FormView, DetailView):
    model = MyModel
    form_class = MyFormClass
    template_name = 'my_template.html'

    def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
        context = super(MyDetailFormView, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)
        context['form'] = self.get_form()
        return context

    def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        return FormView.post(self, request, *args, **kwargs)

By using FormMixin

views.py

from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
from django.core.urlresolvers import (
    reverse_lazy
    )
from django.http import Http404
from django.shortcuts import (
    render,
    redirect
    )
from django.views.generic import (
    DetailView,
    FormView,
    )
from django.views.generic.edit import FormMixin    

from .forms import SendRequestForm


User = get_user_model()  


class ViewProfile(FormMixin, DetailView):

    model = User
    context_object_name = 'profile'
    template_name = 'htmls/view_profile.html'
    form_class = SendRequestForm

    def get_success_url(self):
        return reverse_lazy('view-profile', kwargs={'pk': self.object.pk})

    def get_object(self):
        try:
            my_object = User.objects.get(id=self.kwargs.get('pk'))
            return my_object
        except self.model.DoesNotExist:
            raise Http404("No MyModel matches the given query.")

    def get_context_data(self, *args, **kwargs):
        context = super(ViewProfile, self).get_context_data(*args, **kwargs)
        profile = self.get_object()
        # form
        context['form'] = self.get_form()
        context['profile'] = profile
        return context

    def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        self.object = self.get_object()
        form = self.get_form()
        if form.is_valid():
            return self.form_valid(form)
        else:
            return self.form_invalid(form)    

    def form_valid(self, form):
    #put logic here
        return super(ViewProfile, self).form_valid(form)

    def form_invalid(self, form):
    #put logic here
        return super(ViewProfile, self).form_invalid(form)

forms.py

from django import forms 

class SendRequestForm(forms.Form):

    request_type = forms.CharField()

    def clean_request_type(self):
        request_type = self.cleaned_data.get('request_type')
        if 'something' not in request_type:
            raise forms.ValidationError('Something must be in request_type field.')
        return request_type

urls.py

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^view-profile/(?P<pk>\d+)', ViewProfile.as_view(), name='view-profile'),
]

template

username -{{object.username}}
id -{{object.id}}
<form action="{% url 'view-profile' object.id %}" method="POST">
    {% csrf_token %}
    {{form}}
    <input type="submit" value="Send request">
</form>