Amending URL for "list_display_links" in Django 1.6 admin change list

Question

What I'd like to know is how do I change the URL that's applied to the items listed in list_display_links of an admin.ModelAdmin class?

More specifically I would like /admin/contacts/contacts/12345/ to become /contacts/12345/.

All solutions I could find were quite old, somewhat convoluted and geared towards doing something else on top - so I was hoping there's some obvious way I'm missing.

(I was kind of expecting list_display_link_url (or similar) to exist to over-ride in the ModelAdmin...)

Answer 1

1. Override standard ChangeList (in your admin.py):

   from django.contrib.admin.views.main import ChangeList
   
   class ContactChangeList(ChangeList):  
       def url_for_result(self, result):  
           pk = getattr(result, self.pk_attname)  
           # YOU PROBABLY WANT TO CHANGE NEXT LINES!
           return reverse('admin:%s_%s_change' % (self.opts.app_label, self.opts.model_name),
                          args=(quote(pk),),  
                          current_app=self.model_admin.admin_site.name)
   

2. Tell Django admin to use your new ContactsChangeList instead of standard one:

   class ContactAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):  
       ...  
       def get_changelist(self, request, **kwargs):  
           return ContactChangeList