#29010: Allow customizing the autocomplete search results based on the querying
model
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Reporter: Muslu Y. | Owner: Johannes
| Hoppe
Type: Bug | Status: assigned
Component: contrib.admin | Version: 2.0
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: ForeignKey, | Triage Stage: Accepted
get_search_results, search_fields |
Has patch: 1 | Needs documentation: 1
Needs tests: 1 | Patch needs improvement: 1
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by Gordon Wrigley):
It would be really nice if it were easy to inject additional values into
the widget at form construction time and then filter on them in
get_search_results.
With the current patch I believe that would require:
1: overriding build_attrs to pass the value along
2: overriding autocomplete.js to pass the value along
Regarding these:
1: is not a particularly big deal, but could be tidied up with something
like a get_search_args.
2: this is annoying just because it's outside the python, it would be nice
if it was a wild card pass, perhaps the fields could be bundled into a
dict or some such.
After than you can pull the values off the request in get_search_results,
which is maybe not elegant, but works fine.
In terms or what values to pass along the most useful and the ones on my
mind are the model and pk of the admin page the autocomplete is resident
on.
The page specifically because when there's dynamic (can add and remove)
inlines involved the model and pk of the inlined object is not always
useful.
As an example if you consider polls and choices this is required for a
"default_choice" field which is only allowed to choose from the polls
existing choices.
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