optionally show all models in admin per default in DEBUG

[Christian González]

Hi again.

Maybe this has been discussed before (please tell me).

In each and every Django project I start, I need the Django Admin during
development to create some model data for testing.

And each and every time  I wonder why I have to add the same boilerplate
code for every single model in every app.

So in most projects, I start with a generic way of adding all models to
admin.py programmatically.

and after a few iterations, I thought I'll ask you if that wasn't a
helpful default to add to Django itself.

* I know that there are ModelAdmins, in case you want to sort it out
differently
* I know that there are edge cases and abstract models that shouldn't be
listed

So what if Django (admin) would add models to the admin view, if

* DEBUG==True,
* maybe another attr is present, like settings.AUTO_ADMIN_MODELS
* all admin.py files are already parsed and manually added models are
included, with their special ModelAdmins

like:

# first parse all apps' admin.py

if settings.DEBUG:
    # all other models
    models = apps.get_models()

    for model in models:
        try:
            if not model._meta.abstract:
                admin.site.register(model)
        except admin.sites.AlreadyRegistered:
            pass


It would help getting started with Django more quickly.

--
Dr. Christian González
https://nerdocs.at