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Django Admin Search

The "Django Admin Search" is a advanced search modal for django admin.

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Install:

pip install django-admin-search

Usage:

1. Add to your INSTALLED_APPS, in settings.py:

   INSTALLED_APPS = [  
       ...
       'django_admin_search',
       ...
   ]
   

2. Create a search form for model:

   from .models import Area
   from django.forms import ModelForm, Form
   from django.forms import DateField, CharField, ChoiceField, TextInput
   
   
   class YourFormSearch(Form):
       name = CharField(required=False)
       date = DateField(required=False, widget=TextInput(
           attrs={ 
               'filter_method': '__gte',
           }
       ))
   

3. In your admin:

   from django_admin_search.admin import AdvancedSearchAdmin
   from .models import YourModel
   from .form import YourForm, YourFormSearch
   
   @register(YourModel)
   class YourAdmin(AdvancedSearchAdmin):
       form = YourForm
       search_form = YourFormSearch
   

Advanced:

1. to multiple filters in same field:

   class YourFormSearch(Form):
       ...
       name = CharField(required=False)
       begin = DateField(required=False, widget=TextInput(
           attrs={
               'filter_field': 'date', 
               'filter_method': '__gte',
           }
       ))
       end = DateField(required=False, widget=TextInput(
           attrs={
               'filter_field': 'date', 
               'filter_method': '__lte',
           }
       ))
   

2. add placeholder and mask

   class YourFormSearch(Form):
       ...
       date = DateField(required=False, widget=TextInput(
           attrs={
               'data-mask': "00/00/0000", 
               'placeholder': 'MM/DD/YYYY'
           }
       ))
   

3. Custom filter query for a field

   from django_admin_search.admin import AdvancedSearchAdmin
   from .models import YourModel
   from .form import YourForm, YourFormSearch
   
   @register(YourModel)
   class YourAdmin(AdvancedSearchAdmin):
       def search_FieldNameHere(request, field_value, param_values):
           """
               intercept query filter for description field
           """
           query = Q()
           # your Q logic here
           return query
   

Images:

Button in admin list:

Modal opened:

Development and Running the Tests

To do development work for Django Admin Search, clone it locally, make and activate a virtualenv for it, then from within the project directory:

pip install -e ".[dev]"

To run the tests:

pytest

If your work in high difficult test, and need to re run the test every time, use pytest-watch:

ptw  # this see file change and re run a test

when you need to see passed lines by test, run

pytest --cov-report html

after this, will be created a htmlcov folder in the root

To run sonar

pytest --cov-report xml
pylint ./django_admin_search/ --msg-template="{path}:{line}: [{msg_id}({symbol}), {obj}] {msg}" | tee pylint.txt
sonar-scanner

See your code quality in Sonar (in testing, no metrics to approve yet)

https://sonarcloud.io/dashboard?id=shinneider_django-admin-search

For future i want to run test's in Travis CI, to check if PR is Ok, but to be effective, i need to cover 80% or more of the code, help-me creating a test case, see this issue PR - 20

Need a Maintainer

In the last months i don't have much time, health problemas, change of country and others problems.
i have some surgeries for first part of 2022, and all of my current project don't use django-admin.
for these reasons, i need a help for a project continuation!!