Let's imagine we have those Django models:

class Band(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=256, default="Eagles of Death Metal")

class Song(models.Model):
    band = models.ForeignKey(Band)

When using the admin to manage those models, the band field is associated to a Widget rendered by Django as a select html element.

Django's admin also adds a green plus icon next to the select, clicking it opens a pop-up window where the user is presented with the Form to add a new band. When clicking the save button in this pop-up window, the new band name is saved in the DB, and automatically assigned to the select value.

We rely on some javascript to be run each time a select value changes. It is currently listening to the change event of said element, which works fine when the user clicks a value directly in the menu proposed by the select.

Sadly, when this select is populated through the Admin Popup functionality, it seems the change event is not fired for the select, as our callback is not executed, even though the element's value is actually changed.

Is there another event we can listen to to get the same behaviour than when the user clicks a value directly from the list ?

Let's imagine we have those Django models:

class Band(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=256, default="Eagles of Death Metal")

class Song(models.Model):
    band = models.ForeignKey(Band)

When using the admin to manage those models, the band field is associated to a Widget rendered by Django as a select html element.

Django's admin also adds a green plus icon next to the select, clicking it opens a pop-up window where the user is presented with the Form to add a new band. When clicking the save button in this pop-up window, the new band name is saved in the DB, and automatically assigned to the select value.

We rely on some javascript to be run each time a select value changes. It is currently listening to the change event of said element, which works fine when the user clicks a value directly in the menu proposed by the select.

Sadly, when this select is populated through the Admin Popup functionality, it seems the change event is not fired for the select, as our callback is not executed, even though the element's value is actually changed.

Is there another event we can listen to to get the same behaviour than when the user clicks a value directly from the list ?

• javascript
• django
• django-admin
• dom-events

1 Answer 1

Here is a Javascript snippet with the hackery we use to trigger a change event when the Django admin's add/change popup window is dismissed.

We use this with Django 1.7, so it works for this version at least.

Monkey-patching the Django admin's JS methods to achieve this isn't a very elegant way to do the job, but it was the least intrusive option we found. If anyone knows of a better way, let us all know.

/*
 * Trigger change events when Django admin's popup window is dismissed
 */
(function($) {
    $(document).ready(function() {

        // HACK to override `dismissRelatedLookupPopup()` and
        // `dismissAddAnotherPopup()` in Django's RelatedObjectLookups.js to
        // trigger change event when an ID is selected or added via popup.
        function triggerChangeOnField(win, chosenId) {
            var name = windowname_to_id(win.name);
            var elem = document.getElementById(name);
            $(elem).change();
        }

        window.ORIGINAL_dismissRelatedLookupPopup = window.dismissRelatedLookupPopup
        window.dismissRelatedLookupPopup = function(win, chosenId) {
            ORIGINAL_dismissRelatedLookupPopup(win, chosenId);
            triggerChangeOnField(win, chosenId);
        }

        window.ORIGINAL_dismissAddAnotherPopup = window.dismissAddAnotherPopup
        window.dismissAddAnotherPopup = function(win, chosenId) {
            ORIGINAL_dismissAddAnotherPopup(win, chosenId);
            triggerChangeOnField(win, chosenId);
        }

    });
})(jQuery);