Getting Django admin url for an object

Question

Before Django 1.0 there was an easy way to get the admin url of an object, and I had written a small filter that I\'d use like this:

Answer 1

Here's another option, using models:

Create a base model (or just add the admin_link method to a particular model)

class CommonModel(models.Model):
    def admin_link(self):
        if self.pk:
            return mark_safe(u'%s' % (self._meta.app_label,
                    self._meta.object_name.lower(), self.pk, self))
        else:
            return mark_safe(u'')
    class Meta:
        abstract = True

Inherit from that base model

   class User(CommonModel):
        username = models.CharField(max_length=765)
        password = models.CharField(max_length=192)

Use it in a template

{{ user.admin_link }}

Or view

user.admin_link()