Populate WTForms form from dictionary when using Flask-WTF

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I have a Flask-WTF form that needs to be populated from a dictionary, which I pass in as **kwargs. The form is used in a Flask route that is accessed using the POST method. The form doesn't validate, and the field's value is None. How can I pass a dictionary of data to my form and then validate it?

@app.route('/submit', methods=['POST'])
def submit():
    data = {'name': 'eee'}
    form = MyForm(**data)
    print(form.validate())  # False, name is required
    print(form.name.data)  # None

davidism · Accepted Answer · 2021-03-08 13:38:18Z

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Flask-WTF automatically passes request.form when the route is posted to, if no data is passed explicitly. You need to pass your data, as a MultiDict, to prevent the automatic behavior. Passing obj, data, or **kwargs, only sets the defaults, which are only used if no real data is passed to the form.

form = MyForm(MultiDict(data))

edited Mar 8, 2021 at 13:38

answered May 9, 2016 at 20:57

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aviator · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-09 20:43:03Z

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You have to use data parameter for the constructor. You can also check the documentation

  form = MyForm(data=data)

answered May 9, 2016 at 20:43

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ruipacheco Over a year ago

I've tried data= and didn't work. 'name' was never set.

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