ModelTranslation, Django Admin and Widgets

Question

I'm using django-modeltranslation to translate one of my model. Everything is fine for now, except that my previous widget isn't working anymore. It tried many things, including this :

class EmailTemplateAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):

    def formfield_for_dbfield(self, db_field, **kwargs):
        if db_field.name == 'body':
            kwargs['body'] = TinyMCE(attrs={'cols': 80, 'rows': 30})
            return db_field.formfield(**kwargs)
        return super(EmailTemplateAdmin, self).formfield_for_dbfield(db_field, **kwargs)

class TranslatedEmailTemplateAdmin(EmailTemplateAdmin, TabbedTranslationAdmin):
    def formfield_for_dbfield(self, db_field, **kwargs):
        field = super(TranslatedEmailTemplateAdmin, self).formfield_for_dbfield(db_field, **kwargs)
        self.patch_translation_field(db_field, field, **kwargs)
        return field

According to the documentation of django-modeltranslation about this case, it's the proper way to do this.

I'm not asking for a solution for my own problem, because I guess it might be something in my own code that breaks the thing. I'd just like to have an example of using a widget on a field in django admin that uses modeltranslation... Thanks ! :)

Using Django == 1.6.7 and django-modeltranslation==0.7.3

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 15 '14 at 12:02

Beware of properly overriding the formfield_for_dbfield method of your ModelAdmin class. Looks like you missed kwargs.pop('request', None) and confused kwargs['widget'] with kwargs['body']

Here is the rewritten method:

def formfield_for_dbfield(self, db_field, **kwargs):
    if db_field.name == 'body':
        kwargs.pop('request', None)
        kwargs['widget'] = TinyMCE(attrs={'cols': 80, 'rows': 30})
        return db_field.formfield(**kwargs)
    return super(EmailTemplateAdmin, self).formfield_for_dbfield(db_field, **kwargs)

ModelTranslation, Django Admin and Widgets

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