Custom return classes does not display objects in logentry table

I am having a problem with the audit log for classes that have a customised return. For example I have this code:

          class Adress(models.Model):
            type_id= models.ForeignKey(AddressType)
            street = models.CharField(max_length=256, null=True)
            number = models.CharField(max_length=16, null=True)
            zip_code= models.CharField(max_length=16, null=True)
            city = models.CharField(max_length=64, null=True)
            country = models.CharField(max_length=64, null=True)

          def __str__(self):
             return self.city

          auditlog.register(Adress)

My database records everything nicely, however, the object that changed is not logged because I have a custom return.

See printscreen example subnets and networks:

If I remove the returns I get the object notation properly. But I have a lot of forms where the foreign key needs to be displayed the return I give it, for example “city” for class address. But if I change something with that class, it only returns the city in the table where I would like to see “Address Object”.

Hope you can help me out!

Best, Dylienne

[DylienneKTV]

Hello Audiolion,

I understand, thank you.

However, the returns are very much alike as all are ipv4 addresses. I would like to make a distinction between subnets, networks, ip’s, pub.ip’s etc. In the logentry column, they all return ipv4 notations where it then is not to be distinguished at what object the object_repr belongs to.

Your solution is okay for this project. Thank you.

Best,

[audiolion]

You can write your own get_additional_data method to return additional information about the object in a json format that will be tracked by auditlog

https://github.com/jjkester/django-auditlog/blob/v0.4.3/src/auditlog_tests/models.py#L87

then you can access it on the log_entry object through the additional_data property

https://github.com/jjkester/django-auditlog/blob/v0.4.3/src/auditlog_tests/tests.py#L219

The code that runs it is https://github.com/jjkester/django-auditlog/blob/master/src/auditlog/models.py#L44

basically check if the model being saved has a callable get_addtional_data and if so add the result to an additional_data property on the log entry