Django: accessing the model instance from within ModelAdmin?

Question

I\'ve got a model for Orders in a webshop application, with an auto-incrementing primary key and a foreign key to itself, since orders can be split into multiple orders, but

Answer 1

The above answer from Erwin Julius worked for me, except I found that the name "get_object" conflicts with a Django function so name the function "my_get_object".

class CompanyOccupationInline(admin.TabularInline):

    model = Occupation
    # max_num = 1
    extra = 0
    can_delete = False
    formset = RequiredInlineFormSet

    def formfield_for_dbfield(self, field, **kwargs):

        if field.name == 'unit':
            parent_company = self.my_get_object(kwargs['request'], Company)
            units = Unit.objects.filter(company=parent_company)
            return forms.ModelChoiceField(queryset=units)
        return super(CompanyOccupationInline, self).formfield_for_dbfield(field, **kwargs)

    def my_get_object(self, request, model):
        object_id = request.META['PATH_INFO'].strip('/').split('/')[-1]
        try:
            object_id = int(object_id)
        except ValueError:
            return None
        return model.objects.get(pk=object_id)

It told me not to "respond" to others' answers, but I'm not allowed to "reply" yet, and I have been looking for this for a while so hope this will be helpful to others. I am also not allowed to upvote yet or I totally would!

Answer 2

I think you might need to approach this in a slightly different way - by modifying the ModelForm, rather than the admin class. Something like this:

class OrderForm(forms.ModelForm):

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(OrderForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.fields['parent_order'].queryset = Order.objects.filter(
            child_orders__ordernumber__exact=self.instance.pk)

class OrderAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    form = OrderForm

Answer 3

I've modeled my inline class this way. It's a bit ugly on how it gets the parent form id to filter inline data, but it works. It filters units by company from the parent form.

The original concept is explained here http://www.stereoplex.com/blog/filtering-dropdown-lists-in-the-django-admin

class CompanyOccupationInline(admin.TabularInline):

    model = Occupation
    # max_num = 1
    extra = 0
    can_delete = False
    formset = RequiredInlineFormSet

    def formfield_for_dbfield(self, field, **kwargs):

        if field.name == 'unit':
            parent_company = self.get_object(kwargs['request'], Company)
            units = Unit.objects.filter(company=parent_company)
            return forms.ModelChoiceField(queryset=units)
        return super(CompanyOccupationInline, self).formfield_for_dbfield(field, **kwargs)

    def get_object(self, request, model):
        object_id = resolve(request.path).args[0]
        try:
            object_id = int(object_id)
        except ValueError:
            return None
        return model.objects.get(pk=object_id)