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\         


        

Answer 1

Described how to refactor this into a mixin, with addition of the thread-safety bit based on @taha-jahangir's answer. Here's the mixin:

import threading

class ModelAdminRequestMixin(object):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        # let's define this so there's no chance of AttributeErrors
        self._request_local = threading.local()
        self._request_local.request = None
        super(ModelAdminRequestMixin, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

    def get_request(self):
        return self._request_local.request

    def set_request(self, request):
        self._request_local.request = request

    def changeform_view(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        # stash the request
        self.set_request(request)

        # call the parent view method with all the original args
        return super(ModelAdminRequestMixin, self).changeform_view(request, *args, **kwargs)

    def add_view(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        self.set_request(request)
        return super(ModelAdminRequestMixin, self).add_view(request, *args, **kwargs)

    def change_view(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        self.set_request(request)
        return super(ModelAdminRequestMixin, self).change_view(request, *args, **kwargs)

    def changelist_view(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        self.set_request(request)
        return super(ModelAdminRequestMixin, self).changelist_view(request, *args, **kwargs)

    def delete_view(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        self.set_request(request)
        return super(ModelAdminRequestMixin, self).delete_view(request, *args, **kwargs)

    def history_view(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        self.set_request(request)
        return super(ModelAdminRequestMixin, self).history_view(request, *args, **kwargs)

Subclass ModelAdmin with the mixin:

class PollAdmin(ModelAdminRequestMixin, admin.ModelAdmin):
    pass

... and you can just call self.get_request() from any method.