Trigger an event on add another

[James Pic]

Hi all,

Is it possible to trigger an event on add-another ?

Or is there a better solution to work around this problem ? https://github.com/yourlabs/django-autocomplete-light/blob/master/autocomplete_light/static/autocomplete_light/widget.js#L267

Thanks for answering

Regards

[Mark Lavin]

When I was working on a similar issue for django-selectable I created an issue to address this problem with a simple proof of concept patch https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/15760. However I never followed through with the ticket to try to get something like this added. In the meantime another ticket was created and fixed which solves a large portion of the problem https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/18241. With this change you can catch the click event of the add button. I still feel like the admin inline javascript is not particularly flexible and having some clearly documented hooks for this use case would be nice.

For what it's worth my solution in django-selectable was to patch the formset function to include my callback https://bitbucket.org/mlavin/django-selectable/src/efede3aa83ec6d372626eaac6f54c188287ec3d2/selectable/static/selectable/js/jquery.dj.selectable.js?at=default#cl-289 Not the prettiest solution but it works.

Best,

Mark

[James Pic]

All Django admin would have to do is call: $(this).trigger('django.admin.another_added') or something like that.

It really sounds like little work and would allow user defined callbacks to be executed.

What do you think ?

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[is_null]

My bad I didn't see Mark's mail, I'll subscribe to the list and hopefully this shouldn't happen again.

Thanks Mark for answering

[is_null]

FTR, another solution is to intercept creation of <option> tags with DOMNodeInserted. Requires no monkey patch and is compatible with django & django-grappelli out of the box: https://github.com/yourlabs/django-autocomplete-light/commit/1f1e715e20

Thanks again for your answer (which I credited in the related github issue).

Rock'on