django-reversion can be used to add rollback and recovery to your admin site.
Warning
The admin integration requires that your database engine supports transactions. This is the case for PostgreSQL, SQLite and MySQL InnoDB. If you are using MySQL MyISAM, upgrade your database tables to InnoDB!
Note
If you've registered your models using :ref:`reversion.register() <register>`, the admin class will use the configuration you specify there. Otherwise, the admin class will auto-register your model, following all inline model relations and parent superclasses. Customize the admin registration by overriding :ref:`VersionAdmin.register() <VersionAdmin_register>`.
You can use :ref:`VersionAdmin` as a mixin with a 3rd party admin class.
@admin.register(SomeModel)
class YourModelAdmin(VersionAdmin, SomeModelAdmin):
passIf the 3rd party model is already registered with the Django admin, you may have to unregister it first.
admin.site.unregister(SomeModel)
@admin.register(SomeModel)
class YourModelAdmin(VersionAdmin, SomeModelAdmin):
passA subclass of django.contrib.ModelAdmin providing rollback and recovery.
revision_form_template = None
A custom template to render the revision form.
Alternatively, create specially named templates to override the default templates on a per-model or per-app basis.
'reversion/app_label/model_name/revision_form.html''reversion/app_label/revision_form.html''reversion/revision_form.html'
recover_list_template = None
A custom template to render the recover list.
Alternatively, create specially named templates to override the default templates on a per-model or per-app basis.
'reversion/app_label/model_name/recover_list.html''reversion/app_label/recover_list.html''reversion/recover_list.html'
recover_form_template = None
A custom template to render the recover form.
'reversion/app_label/model_name/recover_form.html''reversion/app_label/recover_form.html''reversion/recover_form.html'
history_latest_first = False
If True, revisions will be displayed with the most recent revision first.
history_order_by_date = False
IfTrue, revisions will be ordered bydate_createdinstead of the numeric version ID.
reversion_register(model, **options)
Callback used by the auto-registration machinery to register the model with django-reversion. Override this to customize how models are registered.
def reversion_register(self, model, **options): options["exclude"] = ("some_field",) super().reversion_register(model, **options)
model- The model that will be registered with django-reversion.
options- Registration options, see :ref:`reversion.register() <register>`.
get_version_ordering(request)
Method that returns a tuple specifying the field names (relative to the
Versionmodel) for ordering. Semantics are similar to the built-inget_orderingmethod in Django'sModelAdmin.Implementations may override this method to achieve custom or dynamic ordering of the version queryset. The return value must be a list or tuple. Calling
super()returns the default ordering which takeshistory_latest_firstandhistory_order_by_dateinto account; this call may be omitted if the default ordering is not required.def get_version_ordering(self, request): if request.user.is_superuser: return ("-revision__date_created", "revision__comment") return super().get_version_ordering(request)
request- The current request.