Django Admin: How to access the request object in admin.py, for list_display methods?

Question

I've added a method highlight_link to my model's admin.py class:

class RadioGridAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):          list_display = ('start_time', highlight_link)          def highlight_link(self):         return ('some custom link')           admin.site.register(RadioGrid, RadioGridAdmin) 

It returns a custom link for (I've left out highlight_link.short_description for brevity) each record returned in the change list. Which is great. But I'd like to inspect the current query string and change the custom link based on that. Is there a way to access the request object within highlight_link?

Answer 1

I solve my issue this way.

class MyClassAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):      def queryset(self, request):         qs = super(MyClassAdmin, self).queryset(request)         self.request = request         return qs 

Now i can use self.request in any place

UPDATE

Changed in Django 1.6: The get_queryset method was previously named queryset.

class MyClassAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):      def get_queryset(self, request):         qs = super(MyClassAdmin, self).get_queryset(request)         self.request = request         return qs