Django - Overriding get_form to customize admin forms based on request

Question

I\'ve tried various methods to achieve this.

I decided against overriding formfield_for_dbfield as it\'s doesn\'t get a copy of the request object and I was hoping t

Answer 1

In my case, with Django 2.1 you could do the following

In forms.py

class ObjectAddForm(forms.ModelForm):

    class Meta:
        model = Object
        exclude = []

class ObjectChangeForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = Object
        exclude = []

And then in the admin.py

from your.app import ObjectAddForm, ObjectChangeForm

class ObjectAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    ....
    def get_form(self, request, obj=None, **kwargs):
        if obj is None: 
            kwargs['form'] = ObjectAddForm
        else:
            kwargs['form'] = ObjectChangeForm
        return super().get_form(request, obj, **kwargs)

Answer 2

I have no idea why printing the property doesn't give you want you just assigned (I guess may be that depends on where you print, exactly), but try overriding get_fieldsets instead. The base implementation looks like this:

def get_fieldsets(self, request, obj=None):
    if self.declared_fieldsets:
        return self.declared_fieldsets
    form = self.get_formset(request).form
    return [(None, {'fields': form.base_fields.keys()})]

I.e. you should be able to just return your tuples.

EDIT by andybak. 4 years on and I found my own question again when trying to do something similar on another project. This time I went with this approach although modified slightly to avoid having to repeat fieldsets definition:

def get_fieldsets(self, request, obj=None):
    # Add 'item_type' on add forms and remove it on changeforms.
    fieldsets = super(ItemAdmin, self).get_fieldsets(request, obj)
    if not obj: # this is an add form
        if 'item_type' not in fieldsets[0][1]['fields']:
            fieldsets[0][1]['fields'] += ('item_type',)
    else: # this is a change form
        fieldsets[0][1]['fields'] = tuple(x for x in fieldsets[0][1]['fields'] if x!='item_type')
    return fieldsets