Opened 17 years ago

Closed 16 years ago

Last modified 13 years ago

#6002 closed (fixed)

Better saving in newforms-admin ModelAdmin

Reported by: Petr Marhoun <petr.marhoun@…> Owned by: Jacob
Component: contrib.admin Version: dev
Severity: Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: yes
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

There are two very long methods in django.contrib.admin.options.ModelAdmin - save_add and save_change. They do three different things - they save objects, they log what happened and they redirect. So I propose to divide them.

Method add_view would call save_add for saving, log_add for logging and redirect_after_save for redirection. Method change_view would call save_change for saving, log_change for logging and redirect_after_save for redirection.

Methods save_add and save_change would be useful for complex saving which depends on forms and inline formsets together. (It solves #4507.)

Methods log_add and log_change could be used for example for something as AuditModelAdmin or NoLogAdmin.

Method redirect_after_save would be something as render_change_form - technical code common for adding and changing, which is not interesting very much.

I feel that now redirection is quite broken, it does not check permissions correctly. My patch fixes it too.

Attachments (5)

00-admin-better-saving.diff (11.0 KB ) - added by Petr Marhoun <petr.marhoun@…> 17 years ago.
00-admin-better-saving.2.diff (11.1 KB ) - added by Petr Marhoun <petr.marhoun@…> 17 years ago.
new version - after autoescape merge
00-admin-better-saving.3.diff (11.1 KB ) - added by Petr Marhoun <petr.marhoun@…> 17 years ago.
new version - after autoescape merge
00-admin-better-saving.4.diff (11.1 KB ) - added by Petr Marhoun <petr.marhoun@…> 17 years ago.
00-admin-better-saving.5.diff (12.0 KB ) - added by shnur 16 years ago.
Patch cleanly applies to revision 7875

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Change History (17)

by Petr Marhoun <petr.marhoun@…>, 17 years ago

Attachment: 00-admin-better-saving.diff added

by Petr Marhoun <petr.marhoun@…>, 17 years ago

new version - after autoescape merge

by Petr Marhoun <petr.marhoun@…>, 17 years ago

new version - after autoescape merge

comment:1 by Brian Rosner, 17 years ago

Keywords: nfa-blocker added
Triage Stage: UnreviewedAccepted

This should be solved with the use of ModelForm once it is integrated into ModelAdmin.

by Petr Marhoun <petr.marhoun@…>, 17 years ago

comment:2 by peschler, 17 years ago

Just some little addition: Add a post_url parameter to the proposed redirect_after_save method:

def redirect_after_save(self, request, new_obj, add=False, change=False, post_url="../")

Then use this to redirect when succesfully saved.

Rationale:
Consider a Menu model which contains MenuEntry models. In the admin I want to edit the Menus, MenuEntries should only be accessible through the admin view of the Menu. If a MenuEntry was edited I want to redirect to the Menu it is contained in, rather than to the MenuEntry overview. To achieve this I need to overwrite save_change (in newforms-admin trunk) or redirect_after_save (in the patch version) and duplicate the whole code of these functions. With the additional post_url parameter a simple wrapper would suffice.

comment:3 by Marc Garcia, 16 years ago

milestone: 1.0 alpha

by shnur, 16 years ago

Patch cleanly applies to revision 7875

comment:4 by shnur, 16 years ago

Owner: changed from nobody to shnur
Status: newassigned

comment:5 by Brian Rosner, 16 years ago

Keywords: nfa-blocker removed
milestone: 1.0 alpha1.0 beta

This actually really isn't critical for a merge. I am going to drop the nfa-blocker and bump to 1.0 beta. I will look at it later.

comment:6 by Jacob, 16 years ago

#6406 and #8005 were marked as dups; they're not quite the same problem, but the problems there should be solved by a general refactoring of saving. Both have some interesting code, though.

comment:7 by Jacob, 16 years ago

Owner: changed from shnur to Jacob
Patch needs improvement: set
Status: assignednew
Version: newforms-adminSVN

comment:8 by Jacob, 16 years ago

Status: newassigned

comment:9 by Jacob, 16 years ago

(In [8265]) Broke the admin's use of LogEntry and user messages out into callbacks on ModelAdmin. Refs #6002.

comment:10 by Jacob, 16 years ago

(In [8266]) Added ModelAdmin.save_model() and ModelAdmin.save_formset() methods to allow for easier modification of objects/inlines at admin-save time. Refs #6002.

comment:11 by Jacob, 16 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

[8266] should have said "fixed" instead of "refs"; this is done now.

comment:12 by Jacob, 13 years ago

milestone: 1.0 beta

Milestone 1.0 beta deleted

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