On Wed, 21 May 2008 20:33:35 -0500, James Bennett wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Patrick J. Anderson
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Passing a Request object should work in application views, but what if
>> one wants to capture that information on every save() call, including
>> in the admin?
>>
>> What would be an elegant and beautiful approach to solving this
>> problem?
>
> Well, newforms-admin is being written to make the HttpRequest object
> available as an argument to the various ModelAdmin methods, which means
> that when you set up your own custom admin you can do pretty much
> anything you want.
>
> Which will make a lot of people happy, and let them go right on building
> workflows that don't make a lot of sense (if somebody's a trusted
> administrator, how come you don't trust them to fill in a field
> properly?).
This is probably not an example of how to do this, but it saves me time
since I only have to do it once and in a single place on Model instance
save().
I use admin, but my clients want many pseudo-admin interfaces for various
reasons and various levels of trust.
So for example, in my models I have been doing something similar to this:
class Item(models.Model):
...
creator = models.ForeignKey(User,
related_name = 'items_created',
editable = False)
time_created = models.DateTimeField(editable = False)
editor = models.ForeignKey(User,
related_name = 'items_modified',
editable = False)
time_modified = models.DateTimeField(editable = False)
def save(self):
user,now = threadlocals.get_current_user(),datetime.now()
if not self.id:
self.creator, self.time_created = user, now
self.editor, self.time_modified = user, now
super(Item, self).save()
I know that probably I should have a Log model somewhere for all this
stuff, but this is simple enough for me and works.
I'm glad that there'll be a way to do stuff like this. In the meantime,
I'm always ready to learn something new and better.
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