Django Object Actions
If you've ever tried making admin object tools you may have thought, "why can't this be as easy as making Django Admin Actions?" Well now they can be.
Quick-Start Guide
Install Django Object Actions:
$ pip install django-object-actions
Add django_object_actions
to your INSTALLED_APPS
so Django can find
our templates.
In your admin.py:
from django_object_actions import DjangoObjectActions, action
class ArticleAdmin(DjangoObjectActions, admin.ModelAdmin):
@action(label="Publish", description="Submit this article") # optional
def publish_this(self, request, obj):
publish_obj(obj)
change_actions = ('publish_this', )
changelist_actions = ('...', )
Usage
Defining new &tool actions is just like defining regular admin actions. The
major difference is the functions for django-object-actions
will take an
object instance instead of a queryset (see Re-using Admin Actions below).
Tool actions are exposed by putting them in a change_actions
attribute in
your admin.ModelAdmin
. You can also add tool actions to the main changelist
views too. There, you'll get a queryset like a regular admin action:
from django_object_actions import DjangoObjectActions
class MyModelAdmin(DjangoObjectActions, admin.ModelAdmin):
@action(
label="This will be the label of the button", # optional
description="This will be the tooltip of the button" # optional
)
def toolfunc(self, request, obj):
pass
def make_published(modeladmin, request, queryset):
queryset.update(status='p')
change_actions = ('toolfunc', )
changelist_actions = ('make_published', )
Just like admin actions, you can send a message with self.message_user
.
Normally, you would do something to the object and return to the same url, but
if you return a HttpResponse
, it will follow it (hey, just like admin
actions!).
If your admin modifies get_urls
, change_view
, or changelist_view
,
you'll need to take extra care because django-object-actions
uses them too.
Re-using Admin Actions
If you would like a preexisting admin action to also be an object action, add
the takes_instance_or_queryset
decorator to convert object instances into a
queryset and pass querysets:
from django_object_actions import DjangoObjectActions, takes_instance_or_queryset
class RobotAdmin(DjangoObjectActions, admin.ModelAdmin):
# ... snip ...
@takes_instance_or_queryset
def tighten_lug_nuts(self, request, queryset):
queryset.update(lugnuts=F('lugnuts') - 1)
change_actions = ['tighten_lug_nuts']
actions = ['tighten_lug_nuts']
Customizing Object Actions
To give the action some a helpful title tooltip, you can use the action
decorator
and set the description argument.
@action(description="Increment the vote count by one")
def increment_vote(self, request, obj):
obj.votes = obj.votes + 1
obj.save()
Alternatively, you can also add a short_description
attribute,
similar to how admin actions work:
def increment_vote(self, request, obj):
obj.votes = obj.votes + 1
obj.save()
increment_vote.short_description = "Increment the vote count by one"
By default, Django Object Actions will guess what to label the button
based on the name of the function. You can override this with a label
attribute:
@action(label="Vote++")
def increment_vote(self, request, obj):
obj.votes = obj.votes + 1
obj.save()
or
def increment_vote(self, request, obj):
obj.votes = obj.votes + 1
obj.save()
increment_vote.label = "Vote++"
If you need even more control, you can add arbitrary attributes to the buttons by adding a Django widget style attrs attribute:
@action(attrs = {'class': 'addlink'})
def increment_vote(self, request, obj):
obj.votes = obj.votes + 1
obj.save()
or
def increment_vote(self, request, obj):
obj.votes = obj.votes + 1
obj.save()
increment_vote.attrs = {
'class': 'addlink',
}
Programmatically Disabling Actions
You can programmatically disable registered actions by defining your own
custom get_change_actions()
method. In this example, certain actions
only apply to certain object states (e.g. You should not be able to
close an company account if the account is already closed):
def get_change_actions(self, request, object_id, form_url):
actions = super(PollAdmin, self).get_change_actions(request, object_id, form_url)
actions = list(actions)
if not request.user.is_superuser:
return []
obj = self.model.objects.get(pk=object_id)
if obj.question.endswith('?'):
actions.remove('question_mark')
return actions
The same is true for changelist actions with get_changelist_actions
.
Alternate Installation
You don't have to add this to INSTALLED_APPS
, all you need to to do
is copy the template django_object_actions/change_form.html
some place
Django's template loader will find
it.
If you don't intend to use the template customizations at all, don't
add django_object_actions
to your INSTALLED_APPS
at all and use
BaseDjangoObjectActions
instead of DjangoObjectActions
.
More Examples
Making an action that links off-site:
def external_link(self, request, obj):
from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
return HttpResponseRedirect(f'https://example.com/{obj.id}')
Limitations
django-object-actions
expects functions to be methods of the model admin. While Django gives you a lot more options for their admin actions.- If you provide your own custom
change_form.html
, you'll also need to manually copy in the relevant bits of our change form . - Security. This has been written with the assumption that everyone in the Django admin belongs there. Permissions should be enforced in your own actions irregardless of what this provides. Better default security is planned for the future.
Python and Django compatibility
See ci.yml
for which Python and Django versions this supports.
Demo Admin & Docker images
You can try the demo admin against several versions of Django with these Docker images: https://hub.docker.com/r/crccheck/django-object-actions/tags
This runs the example Django project in ./example_project
based on the "polls"
tutorial. admin.py
demos what you can do with this app.
Development
Getting started:
# get a copy of the code
git clone [email protected]:crccheck/django-object-actions.git
cd django-object-actions
# Install requirements
make install
make test # run test suite
make quickstart # runs 'make resetdb' and some extra steps
Various helpers are available as make commands. Type make help
and
view the Makefile
to see what other things you can do.
Some commands assume you are in the virtualenv. If you see
"ModuleNotFoundError"s, try running poetry shell
first.
Similar Packages
If you want an actions menu for each row of your changelist, check out Django Admin Row Actions.
Django Object Actions is very similar to django-object-tools, but does not require messing with your urls.py, does not do anything special with permissions, and uses the same patterns as making admin actions.