ItemList options

ItemList is very similar to django’s ModelAdmin. It renders a list of objects returned by Widget values method. The most awesome thing about this widget is it can handle almost everything: a list of model objects, namedtuples, dictionaries and sequences (generators are not sequences).

class ModelItemList(widgets.ItemList):
    model = Model
    queryset = model.active_objects.all()
    list_display = ('pk', 'field', 'get_foo')
    list_display_links = ('field', 'get_foo')
    template_name = 'my_custom_template.html'

    def get_foo(self, obj):
        return 'foo'
    get_foo.allow_tags = True
    get_foo.short_description = 'Foo!'

list_display

For model objects, namedtuples and dictionaries, list_display is a list of fields or keys of object. For sequences index of each item in list_display becomes a key in object, i.e. dict(zip(list_display, sequence)).

Widget’s and model’s class methods can be used in list_display just like in ModelAdmin.list_display``_. They must take an extra parameter for the object returned by ``values. They may have two properties allow_tags (True or False to allow or escape html tags) and short_description (for column name).

list_display_links

Keys or fields should be linked to object’s admin page. If nothing is provided ItemList will try to link the first column.

Note

If ItemList.values method doesn’t return a list of model objects and ItemList.model is not defined, therefore there is no way left to build object’s url.

empty_message

If no items returned by values this message is displayed.

sortable

Set True to make the list sortable.

Note

ModelAdmin gets sorted data from the database and ItemList uses Sortable.js_ to sort rows in browser and it’s not aware about fields data-type. That means you should be careful with sorting stuff like this: %d.%m.