django-admin-backref

Generate admin URLs through the models.

This package automatically attaches an .admin_links object to all models with a registered ModelAdmin (for the default admin site).

This can then be used to generate the links both from the perspective of the model object as well as the model. One can then generate the path, or a link to that path with:

User.admin_links  # '/admin/auth/user/'
User.admin_links.add  # '/admin/auth/user/add'
User.admin_links.label  # '<a href="/admin/auth/user/">&lt;class &#x27;django.contrib.auth.models.User&#x27;&gt;</a>'
User(pk=1, username='username').admin_links  # '/admin/auth/user/1/change/'
User(pk=1, username='username').admin_links.delete  # '/admin/auth/user/1/delete/'
User(pk=1, username='username').admin_links.label  # '<a href="/admin/auth/user/1/change/">username</a>'
User(pk=1, username='username').admin_links.add  # '/admin/auth/user/add/'

Installation

You install the package with:

pip install django-admin-backref

Next you can add the django_admin_backref to the INSTALLED_APPS:

# settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # …,
    'django.contrib.admin',
    # …,
    'django_admin_backref',
    # …
]

Next all the models that have been registered for the default admin site, will automatically have a .admin_links attribute to access the admin URLs. If a model has already such attribute, for example because some other package, it will not override this.

Usage

The .admin_links will generate an AdminLink object. For each view name, it then has attributes. We can access these in four ways:

• .name: the URL for the admin link with that name;
• .name_label: a safe string that contains an <a href=""> to that admin URL, and uses the label of the object;
• .get_name(): the URL for the admin link with that name as a method; and
• .get_name_label(): a safe string that contains an <a href=""> to that admin URL, and uses the label of the object as a method.

For a simple model and for a simple admin, so without additional packages, for the class we have .add, .changelist, for instances it also contains .change, .delete and .history. Additional packages like django-import-export or special ModelAdmins like the one for the User model introduce additional paths, like for example .import and .password_change.

The label is determined by first calling .get_label() on the model object, if that does not work it takes the str(…) of the instance or model class. Finally if these raise an error, it will take the empty string.