Django get instance in inline form admin
Currently accepted solution is not thread safe. If you care about thread safety, never, ever assign an instance to a static class property.
Thread safe solutions are:
For Django 1.7 < 1.9 (possibly earlier versions, unclear):
from django.utils.functional import cached_property
def get_formset(self, *args, **kwargs):
FormSet = super(InlineAdmin, self).get_formset(*args, **kwargs)
class ProxyFormSet(FormSet):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
self.instance = kwargs['instance']
super(ProxyFormSet, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
@cached_property
def forms(self):
kwargs = {'instance': self.instance}
forms = [self._construct_form(i, **kwargs)
for i in xrange(self.total_form_count())]
return forms
return ProxyFormSet
As of Django >= 1.9 it's also possible to pass form_kwargs:
def get_formset(self, *args, **kwargs):
FormSet = super(InlineAdmin, self).get_formset(*args, **kwargs)
class ProxyFormSet(FormSet):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
form_kwargs = kwargs.pop('form_kwargs', {})
form_kwargs['instance'] = kwargs['instance']
super(ProxyFormSet, self).__init__(
*args, form_kwargs=form_kwargs, **kwargs)
return ProxyFormSet
Above solutions will make an instance kwarg available in the model form:
class InlineForm(forms.ModelForm):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
super(InlineForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
print('instance', kwargs['instance'])
Solution: Override the formset method in Inline class
def get_formset(self, request, obj=None, **kwargs):
InlineForm.obj = obj
return super(InlineAdmin, self).get_formset(request, obj, **kwargs)