django-registration passing extra_context to Registration Form

Question

I've just switched to using django-registration to manage user authentication on my website. Before, I used views for the register and login pages, and so was able to specify context parameters. But now, I no longer have views for these pages, as django-registration takes care of this for me. I still need to pass the context variables though, so I've tried this:

urls.py:

import registration
from registration.backends.default.views import RegistrationView
...
(r'^accounts/login/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.login', { 'extra_context' : {'design_form': True }}),
(r'^accounts/register/$', RegistrationView.as_view(form_class=RegistrationForm), { 'extra_context' : {'design_form': True }}),
(r'^accounts/', include('registration.backends.default.urls')),

The 'design_form' parameter functions correctly on the accounts/login/ page but does not get passed to the registration page. How do I pass extra_context to my registration page?

Using django 1.5 and django-registration 1.0

Answer 1

As RegistrationForm is descendant of django.views.generic.FormView and in turn of django.generic.views.View , passing extra_content is done by overriding get_context_data , example included.

Function-based generic views provided an extra_context argument as way to insert extra items into the context at time of rendering.

Class-based views don't provide an extra_context argument. Instead, you subclass the view, overriding get_context_data() .