Django: accessing the model instance from within ModelAdmin?

Question

I\'ve got a model for Orders in a webshop application, with an auto-incrementing primary key and a foreign key to itself, since orders can be split into multiple orders, but

Answer 1

I've modeled my inline class this way. It's a bit ugly on how it gets the parent form id to filter inline data, but it works. It filters units by company from the parent form.

The original concept is explained here http://www.stereoplex.com/blog/filtering-dropdown-lists-in-the-django-admin

class CompanyOccupationInline(admin.TabularInline):

    model = Occupation
    # max_num = 1
    extra = 0
    can_delete = False
    formset = RequiredInlineFormSet

    def formfield_for_dbfield(self, field, **kwargs):

        if field.name == 'unit':
            parent_company = self.get_object(kwargs['request'], Company)
            units = Unit.objects.filter(company=parent_company)
            return forms.ModelChoiceField(queryset=units)
        return super(CompanyOccupationInline, self).formfield_for_dbfield(field, **kwargs)

    def get_object(self, request, model):
        object_id = resolve(request.path).args[0]
        try:
            object_id = int(object_id)
        except ValueError:
            return None
        return model.objects.get(pk=object_id)