Cutsumizing Django auto generated admin area

2.8.2009

So, I’m planing to do a mini series of (mostly) self notes on how to customize/add/remove various parts of Django’s auto generated admin area.

So for a quick start something easy/minimal, that I tend to forget.

Adding custom url handlers

This is especially useful if one tends to add some AJAX to the admin area.
For this, you’ll need to override the call method of your ModelAdmin. Example code:

    def call(self, request, url):

        """

        Delegate to the appropriate method, based on the URL.

        """

        if url is None:

            # default url handler

            return super(PageAdmin, self).call(request, url)

        elif url.endswith(‘move-page’):

            return self.move_page(request, unquote(url[:-10]))

So, if the url ends with move-page ( eg. /admin/<app>/<model>/move-page/ ) the move_page method will be called. You can ( must ) return one of the Django HTTP objects.

I’ll continue with some ( at least for me ) tricky stuff.