Opened 15 years ago

Closed 15 years ago

#12599 closed (invalid)

MultiValueDictKeyError with inline admin, when inline model's ID not displayed

Reported by: handelaar Owned by: nobody
Component: contrib.admin Version: 1.1
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Cc: Triage Stage: Unreviewed
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Description

An odd issue, which I don't have the Python-fu to debug fully.

I have a meta-model called 'Person' (they're parliamentarians, not that this matters especially) to which expenses and past Ministerial Offices are attached through an AdminInline interface. If I do not remove line 6 from the admin.py file attached ("exclude = ('moffice_id',)") then I can't save anything on the page because a traceback like the one attached here results. Yay, workaround available, but boo - exposing nasty IDs in editable fields where I don't want them.

I don't know whether the fact that the model Moffice does not use the default ID fieldname is a factor here or not.

Attaching a minimal admin.py and models.py and the traceback generated when the admin barfs.

Attachments (3)

admin.py (584 bytes ) - added by handelaar 15 years ago.
models.py (1.8 KB ) - added by handelaar 15 years ago.
traceback.txt (9.0 KB ) - added by handelaar 15 years ago.

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Change History (4)

by handelaar, 15 years ago

Attachment: admin.py added

by handelaar, 15 years ago

Attachment: models.py added

by handelaar, 15 years ago

Attachment: traceback.txt added

comment:1 by Karen Tracey, 15 years ago

Resolution: invalid
Status: newclosed

If you don't what the primary key field to be displayed and editable then it needs to be made an AutoField, not an IntegerField. Otherwise how else can it be assigned? I think the problem here is you have models asking for the impossible: non-displayed, non-editable, and non-auto-assigned primary keys in the inlines. I'm pretty sure simply making the primary key field an AutoField will fix the problem. Do not manually exclude the field, the admin will correctly handle hiding the field from the user if it is defined properly.

Version 0, edited 15 years ago by Karen Tracey (next)
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