I'm trying to use generic views together with the newly separated admin
templates, but it's failing miserably.

I specify the generic view I want to use in url.py:
countries = {
'app_label': 'ttime',
'module_name': 'countries',
}
urlpatterns = patterns('',
(r'^countries/$',
'django.views.generic.list_detail.object_list', countries),
(r'^countries/add/$',
'django.views.generic.create_update.create_object', countries),
)

I've copied django/contrib/admin/templates/admin/change_list.html to my
own template directory (no changes yet).

All I get for my efforts is:
AttributeError at /countries/
'str' object has no attribute 'result_count'
Request Method: GET
Request URL:http://localhost:8000/countries/Exception Type: AttributeError
Exception Value: 'str' object has no attribute 'result_count'
Exception Location:

/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/templatetags/admin_list.py
in search_form, line 264

And the (nice and pretty but still) error message points to the line
containing the {% search_form cl %} tag.

I must be missing something fundamental here.

Anyone?

/LarS

stava wrote:
> I'm trying to use generic views together with the newly separated admin
> templates, but it's failing miserably.
>
> I specify the generic view I want to use in url.py:
> countries = {
> 'app_label': 'ttime',
> 'module_name': 'countries',
> }
> urlpatterns = patterns('',
> (r'^countries/$',
> 'django.views.generic.list_detail.object_list', countries),
> (r'^countries/add/$',
> 'django.views.generic.create_update.create_object', countries),
> )
>
> I've copied django/contrib/admin/templates/admin/change_list.html to my
> own template directory (no changes yet).
>
> All I get for my efforts is:
> AttributeError at /countries/
> 'str' object has no attribute 'result_count'
> Request Method: GET
> Request URL:http://localhost:8000/countries/> Exception Type: AttributeError
> Exception Value: 'str' object has no attribute 'result_count'
> Exception Location:
>
> /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/templatetags/admin_list.py
> in search_form, line 264
>
> And the (nice and pretty but still) error message points to the line
> containing the {% search_form cl %} tag.
>
> I must be missing something fundamental here.
>
> Anyone?
>
> /LarS
>
>

Erm, the generic views do not provide a reasonable context for the
changelist.

If you want to make something like the changelist in the admin, you
should probably start off with a copy of the view function from the admin.

I just don't get it (newbie:). Isn't there a way of using generic views
together with the recently separated admin templates? In order to
learn/understand: I'm taking a small part of my model, the Country()
class with two fields (country_code and country_name); I copy the
appropriate templates (change_list and change_form) to my project
environment, and try to access/edit the database items. Are you saying
this is not possible? I've done this by sort of "reverse engineering"
(with the help of Adrian) in previous versions (prior to new-admin
being merged into trunk) to get the templates being created on-the-fly.
I would have thought that the separation of the admin templates into
files instead of being created on the fly was aimed at this type of
thing.

/LarS