Django Admin Integration

[Mischback]

Substitute the default Admin Class for User objects

Brainstorming of features

• custom filters; see https://github.com/Mischback/django-miniuser/blob/development/miniuser/admin.py#L18 and https://github.com/Mischback/django-miniuser/blob/development/miniuser/admin.py#L80
• default ordering of the list; see https://github.com/Mischback/django-miniuser/blob/development/miniuser/admin.py#L83 and https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/contrib/auth/admin.py#L63
• remove Django's default bulk delete-action; see https://github.com/Mischback/django-miniuser/blob/development/miniuser/admin.py#L103
• provide a condensed way to provide the user's status
  • by a simple string; see https://github.com/Mischback/django-miniuser/blob/development/miniuser/admin.py#L118
  • by coloring the username; see https://github.com/Mischback/django-miniuser/blob/development/miniuser/admin.py#L130
  • by tagging the username; see https://github.com/Mischback/django-miniuser/blob/development/miniuser/admin.py#L144
  • provide a legend, if color-status or tagged-status is used
• combine the email-address with the respective verification status
  • see https://github.com/Mischback/django-miniuser/blob/development/miniuser/admin.py#L158
  • probably the biggest challenge, because here the original User-model is connected to UserEnhancement

[Mischback]

Probable Implementation:

• subclass django.contrib.auth.admin.UserAdmin and add the enhancements
• use django.contrib.admin.sites.AdminSite.unregister(User) to remove the (probably already registered) UserAdmin and then re-register the new, subclassed and enhanced class with django.contrib.admin.sites.AdminSite.register(User, NewAndShinyUserAdmin)
  • the timing is important here; see https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/ref/settings/#installed-apps; basically: django-auth-enhanced must come after auth. (this may be a no-brainer, because at least I only put the default apps before custom ones, but it should be documented, just in case!)

[Mischback]

Enhance the default admin class for User objects.

• [RESEARCH] Is it possible to add additional functionality to Django's default UserAdmin?
  • see https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/contrib/auth/admin.py#L41
• [RESEARCH] Is it possible to substitute the given UserAdmin?
  • it certainly is possible, see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2342031/remove-default-apps-from-django-admin/2342136, https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/contrib/admin/sites.py#L126 and http://kueda.net/blog/2008/07/25/extending-existing-django-modeladmin-classes/comment-page-1/