django-select2-admin-filters 0.1.1

A simple extension to Django app to render filters in django admin panel as autocomplete widget.

django_select2_admin_filters

This extension is based on django-select2 and works with or without Grappelli.

Installation

• Install using pip

  pip install django-select2-admin-filters
  

• Update INSTALLED_APPS, you need too put django_select2_admin_filters after admin and django_select2

  INSTALLED_APPS = [
      'django.contrib.admin',
      #
      'django_select2',
      'django_select2_admin_filters',
  ]
  

• Update urls.py to use model filters (refer to django-select2 documentation)

  path('select2/', include('django_select2.urls')),
  

Filters

Filters are generally of two types, but each of them can be single or multiple selectable:

• ChoiceFilter
  • ChoiceSelect2Filter
  • MultipleChoiceSelect2Filter
• ModelFilter
  • ModelSelect2Filter
  • MultipleModelSelect2Filter

Usage

• Use filter in your admin.py

    from django.contrib import admin
    from libs.django_select2_admin_filters.admin import (
        Select2AdminFilterMixin)
    from libs.django_select2_admin_filters.filters import (
        ChoiceSelect2Filter, MultipleChoiceSelect2Filter,
        ModelSelect2Filter, MultipleModelSelect2Filter)
    from your_app.models import Country, Person, Profession
  
  
    class CountryFilter(ModelSelect2Filter):
        title = 'Country of residence'                 # filter's title
        parameter_name = 'country'                     # parameter used in url and by default field name of Foreign Key used to filter results
        autocomplete_queryset = Country.objects.all()  # queryset to autocomplete
        search_fields = ['name__icontains']            # fields of Country model used to filtering
  
        # optionally you can override queryset method
        def queryset(self, request, queryset):
            val = self.value()
            if val:
                return queryset.filter(country_of_residence=val)
            return queryset
  
  
    class ProfessionFilter(MultipleModelSelect2Filter):
        title = 'Profession'
        parameter_name = 'profession'
        autocomplete_queryset = Profession.objects.all()
        search_fields = ['name__icontains']
  
        def queryset(self, request, queryset):
            val = self.value_as_list()
            if len(val) > 0:
                return queryset.filter(professions__profession_id__in=val)
            return queryset
  
  
    class StatusFilter(ChoiceSelect2Filter):
        title = 'Status'
        parameter_name = 'status'
        autocomplete_choice_list = [    # list of choices
            (1, 'Active',),
            (2, 'Suspended',),
            (3, 'Deleted',),
        ]
  
  
    @admin.register(Person)
    class PersonAdmin(Select2AdminFilterMixin, admin.ModelAdmin):
  
        # change_list_template = 'admin/change_list_filter_sidebar.html' <- DON'T override change_list_template
        list_filter = (CountryFilter, ProfessionFilter, StatusFilter,) # actually you cannot mix filters with traditional filters
  

TODO

• add tests
• add handling dependent_fields

Author

• Bartłomiej Żmudziński