How do I get access to the request object when validating a django.contrib.comments form?

Question

I would like to run a check on the IP-adress when users post with django comments.

I can easily override and customize the form used by django.comments, but I need access to the request object to add an IP-test to its clean(). Is it possible to get access to this in a clean way?

An alternative could be to check the IP when recieving the save signal, but then the only way to abort the save seems to be returning a code 400 to the user.

Answer 1

One possible way, but you still do not have request object in this level of validation...

class SomeForm(forms.ModelForm):
    somefield = forms.CharField(...)

    def check_somefield(self):
        somefield = self.cleaned_data['somefield']
        ...  #do what you want
    return somefield

Hope this can help, or i do not understand what you want correctly.

Answer 2

I think this is the answer to your question:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1057252/django-how-do-i-access-the-request-object-or-any-other-variable-in-a-forms-clea

Answer 3

The comments framework provides a comment_will_be_posted signal: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/ref/contrib/comments/signals/#comment-will-be-posted

If you register at this signal, your handler will be passed the (not yet saved) comment object and the request as arguments. If your handler returns False, the post_comment view answers with CommentPostBadRequest, as it does on any other sort of error like failed form validation.