from functools import update_wrapper from django.contrib import admin from django.db import models class Action(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=50, primary_key=True) description = models.CharField(max_length=70) def __unicode__(self): return self.name class ActionAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin): """ A ModelAdmin for the Action model that changes the URL of the add_view to '//!add/' The Action model has a CharField PK. """ list_display = ('name', 'description') def remove_url(self, name): """ Remove all entries named 'name' from the ModelAdmin instance URL patterns list """ return filter(lambda e: e.name != name, super(ActionAdmin, self).get_urls()) def get_urls(self): # Add the URL of our custom 'add_view' view to the front of the URLs # list. Remove the existing one(s) first from django.conf.urls import patterns, url def wrap(view): def wrapper(*args, **kwargs): return self.admin_site.admin_view(view)(*args, **kwargs) return update_wrapper(wrapper, view) info = self.model._meta.app_label, self.model._meta.module_name view_name = '%s_%s_add' % info return patterns('', url(r'^!add/$', wrap(self.add_view), name=view_name), ) + self.remove_url(view_name) admin.site.register(Action, ActionAdmin)