GET variable names replaced by 'e'

[martopolis@…]

I'm attempting to override the queryset() method to make a custom filter for the Change List Admin view. The idea was to append ?myview=1 to the URL and then check it like so:

if request.GET['myview'] == '1':
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But everything I pass via the URL string is being replaced by the key name 'e' in the GET dictionary:

"Key 'myview' not found in <QueryDict: {u'e': [u'1']}>"

Curiously, this also happens in the final URL string. That is, the URL gets rewritten and redirected to ?e=1 as well.

[anonymous]

Bad formatting, let's see if this works:

if request.GET['myview'] == '1': ..

[Jannis Leidel]

Without further explanation or concrete code example I can't reproduce this.

[anonymous]

I've noticed this only happens when opening a model change list view. That is, if I try to load ​http://mysite/admin/?variable=1, there's no problem. But when I try ​http://mysite/admin/myproject/model/?variable=1. the 'variable' portion gets rewritten as 'e'.

[Julien Phalip]

Custom filters only exist in the development version and will be available in 1.4. The redirection with "?e=1" is when some GET parameters are recognized as invalid; see: source:django/trunk/django/contrib/admin/options.py?rev=16602#L1102 (in dev version, but same in 1.3)

[anonymous]

julien: Thanks for pointing to me to code in question. I see I can probably 'fix' this by just commenting out that block of code and adding 'pass' to the 'except' statement. Don't you think that Django should support passing custom parameters via GET in the changelist_view, though?