Opened 16 years ago

Closed 16 years ago

#6220 closed (wontfix)

Search fields fails if the field names are unicode objects

Reported by: Robert Bunting <robert@…> Owned by: nobody
Component: contrib.admin Version: newforms-admin
Severity: Keywords: unicode search_fields
Cc: Triage Stage: Design decision needed
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

Using r5458 (but this still looks valid),
If I define the search_fields in my admin model as

class Admin:
    search_fields = (u'description', u'image')

searches fail with arguments to __init__ must be strings
though if I use

class Admin:
    search_fields = ('description', 'image')

then of course it's ok.

Unicode objects should be ok here, so I just need to apply smart_str to the field names while making the search Q object. See simple patch.

Attachments (1)

unicode_search_fields.diff (799 bytes ) - added by Robert Bunting <robert@…> 16 years ago.
apply smart_str to search_fields in admin.

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Change History (3)

by Robert Bunting <robert@…>, 16 years ago

Attachment: unicode_search_fields.diff added

apply smart_str to search_fields in admin.

comment:1 by Malcolm Tredinnick, 16 years ago

Summary: old admin: search fields fails if the field names are unicode objectsSearch fields fails if the field names are unicode objects
Triage Stage: UnreviewedDesign decision needed
Version: SVNnewforms-admin

Not worth fixing on trunk, since you can just use normal strings in the Admin specification (they are referring to Python attributes, which must be ASCII, so this isn't restricting the possibilities at all) and we're trying to reduce the changes to existing admin to showstoppers only at this point.

Moving to the newforms-admin branch so that somebody can check the problem is handled there (or Joseph can decide to wontfix it).

comment:2 by jkocherhans, 16 years ago

Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed

Closing as wontfix due to the reasons Malcolm listed above. The items in fields refer to python attributes, which must be ASCII. Allowing unicode objects is misleading at best. Perhaps some sort of validator is in order to give a more friendly error, but it isn't a priority.

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