How should I extend the Django FeinCMS MediaLibrary?

Question

We would like to extend the MediaLibrary of the Django FeinCMS without editing the module code itself.

We want

a few custom fields
and to use a library for individual cropping that we have already.

How should we put everything together?

The simplest approach would be to create an extensions model with a ForeignKey to the MediaLibrary, and to register a custom Admin site with an inline admin for the extensions model. But maybe there's a cleaner and better way.

You can patch the Medialibrary model the same way you patch the Page model — Hedde van der Heide, Jul 13 '14 at 14:09
You're right. And this sounds cleaner and better. Thanks! (I can only accept this as the correct answer if you post it as an answer.) — Philipp Zedler, Jul 13 '14 at 20:07

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 08 '14 at 19:21

As Hedde said, the media file model supports registering extensions the same way as the page module allows, using MediaFile.register_extensions.

The method which is used for generating thumbnails in the media library should always be FEINCMS_MEDIALIBRARY_THUMBNAIL. The default value of this setting is feincms.module.medialibrary.thumbnail.default_admin_thumbnail which is a method that receives a media file object and returns the URL to a thumbnail or None.

How should I extend the Django FeinCMS MediaLibrary?

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