Enable/disable logging actions (Create, Update, Delete) on specific Models

[rptmat57]

Hi, First of all, thank you for this excellent app. I love how simple yet powerful this is. My favorite part is being able to configure everything in settings.py so each users of a django project can decide if/what they want to track.

I was wondering if there is already a way (couldn't find it in the docs) to skip logs for Creation or Deletion of objects, or to only log Update actions. One example would be having a lot of "read-only" type objects in a project where we don't want to clog the audit log table with all the creation of objects, but simply see when one is changed. (even though I mentioned read-only, some objects can still be edited in the django admin interface).

If it doesn't exist yet, maybe this could be implemented as a list of Action IDs that could be set on a model.

Thanks again for the great work!

[hramezani]

Hi,

I think it can be implemented by adding a new param to auditlog.register for example, actions. By default, it will track all actions.

The same param has to be added to AUDITLOG_INCLUDE_TRACKING_MODELS setting.

[mantulen]

Here is how I worked around this..

Created a function for reusability:

from auditlog.registry import auditlog

def disconnect_signal(model, receiver_name):
    for signal, receiver in auditlog._signals.items():
        if receiver.__name__ == receiver_name:
            signal.disconnect(sender=model, dispatch_uid=auditlog._dispatch_uid(signal, receiver))

And then after registering a model, we disconnect a given signal:

auditlog.register(MyModel)
disconnect_signal(MyModel, 'log_create')

Signal options are:

log_create
log_update
log_delete
log_access

Auditlog has a very similar internal function as this, but it disconnects all signals for a model, it is located in registry.py