Django Admin Filters from ArrayFields
I've written before about the cool ArrayField support in Django, and this is another such post. In this one, we'll take a look and see how to turn your model's ArrayField values into filters in the admin. To start out, let's assume we have a model that contains a simple title (a CharField) and some keywords (an ArrayField). It might look something like this: from django.db import models class Item(models.Model): title = models.CharField ...
Published: 2015-04-25
Nice ArrayField widgets with choices and chosen.js
One of the really cool new features in Django 1.8 is the support for Postgres-specific fields. I'm very excited to be able to use things like PostgreSQL arrays or hstore without 3rd-party add-ons. Unfortnately, the default form inputs for ArrayFields are less than stellar. So, in this post I want to explore a few things: a Model who's ArrayField only accepts items from a set of predefined choices a ModelForm that makes use of chosen.js (which ...