#35089 closed New feature (invalid)

Allow admin filtering on GenericForeignKey and GenericRelation relations via search_fields

Reported by: Chase Adams Owned by: nobody
Component: contrib.admin Version: 5.0
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

This ticket is to enable normal Admin search_fields syntax for GenericForeignKey and GenericRelation fields including additional query expression relation traversal using double underscore syntax.

For instance given these models:

class ModelA(Model):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    content_type = models.ForeignKey(ContentType, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    object_id = models.PositiveIntegerField()
    content_object = GenericForeignKey('content_type', 'object_id')

class ModelB(Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    related_as = GenericRelation(ModelA)

Enable admin search in this format:

class ModelAAdmin(ModelAdmin):
    search_fields = ['content_object__name']
admin.site.register(ModelA, ModelAAdmin)

class ModelBAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    search_fields = ['related_as__title']
admin.site.register(ModelB, ModelAAdmin)

Additionally, further double underscore relation traversal should be implemented:

    search_fields = ['content_object__foreignkey_field__name']
    search_fields = ['related_as__other_content_object__name']

Change History (1)

comment:1 by Chase Adams, 12 months ago

Resolution: invalid
Status: newclosed
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