#29700: Provide an "autocomplete_ordering" value in ModelAdmin, to decouple
autocomplete ordering from admin ordering
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Reporter: David W. Lloyd | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: new
Component: contrib.admin | Version: 2.1
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by David W. Lloyd):
Replying to [comment:2 Johannes Hoppe]:
> Replying to [comment:1 Carlton Gibson]:
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> That is not a bad way, this is how I would go about it myself too.
Actually this way you can add all sorts of extra functionality.
I agree, that's a fine way to achieve the functionality, and if
AutocompleteJsonView gets a bit more documentation, I guess that would be
the default approach?
But my thinking is as follows: you can make the same exact argument about
the *existing* "ordering" field - why have it, when you can do the same
thing by modifying the queryset?
I personally believe the answer is: "Because it's a common enough use case
that having a dedicated field makes it easier, more intuitive, and more
explicit" - all of which are good things, and I think they apply to the
autocomplete sorting the same as they do the ModelAdmin sorting.
Yes, that comes at the cost of adding another field to the API, but that's
going to be the case with anything you want to make more
explicit/intuitive. If there was an interest in conserving fields, it
could be a dict? like:
{{{
autocomplete_view_options = {'ordering': 'name,
'other_useful_parameter_to_be_added_in_future': 'maybe?'}
}}}
...either way, while I see how to achieve the functionality in question
myself and will have no problem whatsoever doing so, I still believe that
the explicit decoupling would make sense, either via a single
"autocomplete_ordering" field or a dict of extensible options including,
initially, ordering.
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