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

Small code clarify for Diego Puente answer (python 3.6):

class MyClassAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    def __init__(self, model, admin_site): 
        self.request = None
        super().__init__(model, admin_site)

    def get_queryset(self, request):
        self.request = request      
        return super().get_queryset(request)

So you can get self.request from any other method of MyClassAdmin.

If define self.request in get_queryset method (without declaring it in __init__) PyCharm will generate warning Instance attribute attribute_name defined outside __init__.