Initial form field doesn't set in Django

I have following set up.

Model:

class Feedbacks(models.Model):
    user_id = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE, null=True)
    feedback = models.TextField()
    rating = models.IntegerField()

Form:

class FeedbackModelForm(ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = Feedbacks
        exclude = ['user_id']

View:

@login_required
def feedbackPage(request):
    username = request.user.id
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = FeedbackModelForm(request.POST, initial={'user_id': username})
        if form.is_valid():
            form.save()
            return redirect('feedback_success')
    else:
        form = FeedbackModelForm()

    context = {'form': form}
    return render(request, 'feedback.html', context)

Print(username) shows current current authenticated user ID.

During the save procedure it doesn't save user_id field (it's NULL).

I need that user_id field saved from authenticated user.

It looks like the issue is how you are setting the user id when you create the object in your view function. Your code is setting a form called 'user_id' to the user id from the request object but that won't work because you have already excluded 'user_id' in your FeedbackModelForm class.

Instead of trying to set an initial value for the form, try setting the user_id field on the object directly and then saving it manually. Like so:

views.py

@login_required
def feedbackPage(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = FeedbackModelForm(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            feedbackObj = form.save(commit=False)  # commit=False means that the form is not saved to the database yet
            feedbackObj.user_id = request.user  # set the user to the current user
            feedbackObj.save()  # save the form to the database
            return redirect('feedback_success')
    else:
        form = FeedbackModelForm()

That should fix the issue. (well at least, I think it will)