I am busy making something like a knowledge graph in wagtail.
CurriculumContentItem
is a node on that graph. It has a many-to-many relationship with itself, and the through model has important fields.
I'm struggling to get this to be usable in the admin page. Please see the inline comments:
class ContentItemOrder(models.Model):
post = models.ForeignKey(
"CurriculumContentItem", on_delete=models.PROTECT, related_name="pre_ordered_content"
)
pre = models.ForeignKey(
"CurriculumContentItem", on_delete=models.PROTECT, related_name="post_ordered_content"
)
hard_requirement = models.BooleanField(default=True)
class CurriculumContentItem(Page):
body = RichTextField(blank=True)
prerequisites = models.ManyToManyField(
"CurriculumContentItem",
related_name="unlocks",
through="ContentItemOrder",
symmetrical=False,
)
content_panels = Page.content_panels + [
# FieldPanel("prerequisites")
# FieldPanel just lets me select CurriculumContentItems, but I need to access fields in the through model
# InlinePanel("prerequisites"),
# This causes a recursion error
FieldPanel('body', classname="full collapsible"),
]
If I wanted to do this in the normal Django admin I would make use of an inlines to specify prerequisites. Something like:
class ContentItemOrderPostAdmin(admin.TabularInline):
model = models.ContentItem.prerequisites.through
fk_name = "post"
class ContentItemOrderPreAdmin(admin.TabularInline):
model = models.ContentItem.unlocks.through
fk_name = "pre"
Is there a similar mechanism in Wagtail?
It looks like I need to create a custom Panel for this.
This works:
ParentalKey
instead of ForeignKey
from modelcluster.fields import ParentalKey
from wagtail.core.models import Page, Orderable
class ContentItemOrder(Orderable): ### 1
post = ParentalKey( ### 2
"CurriculumContentItem", on_delete=models.PROTECT, related_name="pre_ordered_content"
)
pre = ParentalKey( ### 2
"CurriculumContentItem", on_delete=models.PROTECT, related_name="post_ordered_content"
)
hard_requirement = models.BooleanField(default=True)
panels = [
PageChooserPanel('pre'),
PageChooserPanel('post'),
FieldPanel('hard_requirement'),
]
class CurriculumContentItem(Page):
body = RichTextField(blank=True)
prerequisites = models.ManyToManyField(
"CurriculumContentItem",
related_name="unlocks",
through="ContentItemOrder",
symmetrical=False,
)
content_panels = Page.content_panels + [
InlinePanel('pre_ordered_content', label="prerequisites"), ### 3
InlinePanel('post_ordered_content', label="unlocks"), ### 3
FieldPanel('body', classname="full collapsible"),
]
I was worried that there would be 2 PageChooser fields available per inline but wagtail is clever (and magical) enough that it just draws the one we need