Filtering Django Admin by Null/Is Not Null

Question

I have a simple Django model like:

class Person(models.Model):
    referrer = models.ForeignKey(\'self\', null=True)
    ...

In this model\

Answer 1

I ended up using a mixture of the top solution here, along with this snippet.

However, I had to tweak the snippet slightly, dropping the field type restriction and adding the new field_path, recently added in 1.3.

from django.contrib.admin.filterspecs import FilterSpec
from django.db import models
from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe
from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _

class NullFilterSpec(FilterSpec):
    #fields = (models.CharField, models.IntegerField, models.FileField)

    @classmethod
    def test(cls, field):
        #return field.null and isinstance(field, cls.fields) and not field._choices
        return field.null and not field._choices
    #test = classmethod(test)

    def __init__(self, f, request, params, model, model_admin, field_path=None):
        super(NullFilterSpec, self).__init__(f, request, params, model, model_admin, field_path)
        self.lookup_kwarg = '%s__isnull' % f.name
        self.lookup_val = request.GET.get(self.lookup_kwarg, None)

    def choices(self, cl):
        # bool(v) must be False for IS NOT NULL and True for IS NULL, but can only be a string
        for k, v in ((_('All'), None), (_('Has value'), ''), (_('Omitted'), '1')):
            yield {
                'selected' : self.lookup_val == v,
                'query_string' : cl.get_query_string({self.lookup_kwarg : v}),
                'display' : k
            }

# Here, we insert the new FilterSpec at the first position, to be sure
# it gets picked up before any other
FilterSpec.filter_specs.insert(0,
    # If the field has a `profilecountry_filter` attribute set to True
    # the this FilterSpec will be used
    (lambda f: getattr(f, 'isnull_filter', False), NullFilterSpec)
)