wapo-django-autocomplete

wapo-django-autocomplete is an installable app which overrides the stock adminraw ID widget with an autocomplete search box. It has two interesting features over competing apps:

• It limits/filters the search query that the autocomplete logic performs when matching the keyword. This limit/filter logic is on a per-field basis.
• It works with inlines.

Installation

• The autocomplete templates need to be located by Django, so it's recommended that you add it to your installed apps.
• Install from github using pip:

pip install -e [email protected]:jeremyjbowers/django-autocomplete.git#egg=autocomplete

Code examples

Here's an example of how you would use wapo-django-autocomplete to create an autocomplete field on a foreign key field.

models.py:

class Bar(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=255)
    ...
    
class Baz(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=255)
    bar = models.ForeignKey(Bar)
    ...
    
class Foo(models.Model):
    bar = models.ForeignKey(Bar)
    baz = models.ForeignKey(Baz)
    ...

admin.py

class FooAdmin(NoLookupsForeignKeyAutocompleteAdmin):
    model = Foo
    related_search_fields = {
        'bar': ('name',),       #search against the name field in the FK bar.
        'baz': ('bar__name',),  #traverse a second foreign key to search against the name of bar.
    }

Todos

• Test to make sure templates are properly installing.
• Identify ways to customize returned items in the widget, e.g., limit to 10, alphabetize, etc.