Allow overriding construct_search().

[Ramez Issac]

In ModelAdmin, get_search_result uses an inner function construct_search to add the icontains , istartswith, iexact

It can be much easier for more customization, if construct_search function was override-able.

FYI, My Case is: i can not add a related id field to search_fields... have to use traversing .

class MyAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    search_fields = ['client_id', # wont work
                     'client__id'  # will work ]

[Mariusz Felisiak]

class MyAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    search_fields = ['client_id', # wont work
                     'client__id'  # will work ]

In such cases, you can always use the __exact lookup (as ​documented), e.g.

class MyAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    search_fields = ['client_id__exact']

There is no need to change construct_search().

[averta]

I would need to use search unaccent sensitive in the admin search.

Ideally, I would be able to override construct_search as :

def custom_construct_search(field_name):
    if field_name.startswith("^"):
        return "%s__unaccent__istartswith" % field_name[1:]
    elif field_name.startswith("="):
        return "%s__unaccent__iexact" % field_name[1:]
    elif field_name.startswith("@"):
        return "%s__unaccent__search" % field_name[1:]
    else:
        return "%s__unaccent__icontains" % field_name

How else would you recommend doing so ?

[Natalia Bidart]

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