Action should be importable from django.contrib.admin.

[Mariusz Felisiak]

The new Action class should be importable from django.contrib.admin like ActionLocation.

[Natalia Bidart]

Thank you Mariusz, I think you proposal makes sense. I'm accepting but could you share your use case in the ticket for future reference?

[Mariusz Felisiak]

Replying to Natalia Bidart:

Thank you Mariusz, I think you proposal makes sense. I'm accepting but could you share your use case in the ticket for future reference?

Sure, I'm adding actions dynamically based on the queryset, so separate action for each object, something like:

def get_actions(
        self,
        request,
        action_location=admin.ActionLocation.CHANGE_LIST,
    ):
        actions: dict[str, admin.Action] = super().get_actions(
            request,
            action_location=action_location, 
        )
        for some_obj in SomeModel.objects.all():
            name = f"add_{some_obj.pk}"
            description = f"Add {some_obj.name}"
            actions[name] = admin.Action(
                func=functools.partial(add_some_obj_action, some_obj=some_obj),
                name=name,
                description=description,
                plural_description=description,
                locations=[
                    admin.ActionLocation.CHANGE_LIST,
                    admin.ActionLocation.CHANGE_FORM,
                ],
            )
        return actions

I was surprised that I can use admin.ActionLocation but not admin.Action. The second thing is that our docs point to the django.contrib.admin module, that's why [source] is not visible for Action, check out ​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/6.1/ref/contrib/admin/actions/#action.