Changelist links for proxy model admins

[Niccolò Mineo]

Hi.

When one is displaying a proxy model admin I think It could be nice to automatically override the default behaviour for instances in the changelist and have them redirect to the proxy URL, instead of the default, non-proxy one.

What do you think?

I can prepare a PR.

[Adam Johnson]

Hi Niccolò

I suspect no one has replied to your thread because your use case is too niche. Perhaps try showing the issue with more words and more visually with a screenshot or two.

To me it sounds like "the admin links to the wrong place for proxy models" which sounds like a plain bug, and if that is the case you could directly open a ticket.

—Adam

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[Niccolò Mineo]

Hi Adam,

let me explain with one use case (I believe there's at least one more, but it doesn't matter for example's sake):

say you have a model Employee with two proxy models DeliveryPerson and CallCenterOperator, but only Employee has a ModelAdmin.

You get to the Employee admin changelist and each instance's link is in the form of /admin/employees/employee/{pk}/.

What you would like to have sometimes is that links actually follow the structure of the proxy model they point to.

So, if one Employee instance is actually a DeliveryPerson, then I may want to have its own link on the changelist to be /admin/employees/deliveryperson/{pk}/, instead of the  /admin/employees/employee/{pk}/.

Right now this is possible by overriding one of the response methods in the ModelAdmin, but I would find very useful a boolean attribute ("proxy_changelist_links" maybe?) on the ModelAdmin for the same purpose.