ModelAdmin.init has self.opts, but it still nowerewhere else in django.admin.contrib.options not used

[Maxim Danilov]

At thirst:

ModelAdmin.__init__():
        self.model = model
        self.opts = model._meta

after that i see it more than 40 times in django.admin.contrib.options.py
...

 def __str__(self):
        return "%s.%s" % (self.model._meta.app_label, self.__class__.__name__)  # r.n. 593

...

info = self.model._meta.app_label, self.model._meta.model_name  # r.n. 620

It's easy to change with find/replace

[Carlton Gibson]

Hi Maxim.

I'll provisionally accept this for review. Let's see what the cleanup looks like.

This have been the same for a long time. (e.g. Many of the lines are unchanged since a19ed8aea395e8e07164ff7d85bd7dff2f24edca.) We can't change the API here, and it might be that it's not worth it looking at the diff, but in principle yes, a bit more consistency of usage might make it easier to follow.

Thanks

[Marcelo Galigniana]

Hello!

I can do the find/replace to see how the diff looks like.

But I would suggest to do the opposite way: remove the use of .opts and use ._meta instead (which in my opinion it's easier; at least to get more consistency). What do you think?

I did a quick search in the project and I got:

• For ".opts" -> 66 results in 11 files
• For "model._meta" -> 980 results in 134 files
• And just "._meta" -> 2215 results in 225 files

Update: I didn't want unassign Maxim, I just saw the "4 months ago" and I thought it was unassigned, sorry!

[Maxim Danilov]

Hi Marcelo.
If i use ModelAdmin.opts, i use public Attribute from instance and i can override it for my needs.
i think it is right.

If in ModelAdmin placed self.model._meta, at first it is wrong to use privat property from other object, at second - it is possible, but more difficult to override it.

That's why i see ModelAdmin.opts is a right way for Django.

[Marcelo Galigniana]

Thank you for the explanation Maxim! And sorry again!

Replying to Maxim Danilov:

Hi Marcelo.
If i use ModelAdmin.opts, i use public Attribute from instance and i can override it for my needs.
i think it is right.

If in ModelAdmin placed self.model._meta, at first it is wrong to use privat property from other object, at second - it is possible, but more difficult to override it.

That's why i see ModelAdmin.opts is a right way for Django.

[Marcelo Galigniana]

​PR

[Mariusz Felisiak <felisiak.mariusz@…>]

In d80a2585:

Fixed #33028 -- Used ModelAdmin's opts attribute instead of model._meta.