Searching for hashid's with the ModelAdmin's 'search_fields' feature?

It would be very useful for our daily operations if we could search the hashed value in the standard ModelAdmin search widget.

I naively tried adding the field name to search_fields but it doesn’t find the items I know are there. This was with an HashidAutoField with primary, salt and alphabet all set.

I’ve spend some downtime looking into it, and found ModelAdmin.get_search_results in the docs, and I can make this search work by implementing it like this:

def get_search_results(self, request, queryset, search_term):
    queryset, use_distinct = super().get_search_results(request, queryset, search_term)
    queryset |= self.model.objects.filter(id=search_term)
    return queryset, use_distinct

What is weird about it that my code doesn’t do any decoding; the regular queryset lookup on the field does it already.

So now I wonder if we can make it so we don’t need to cart this overridden method around but just use the field name in the search_fields?

[nshafer]

This should now work with version 1.3.0 without any extra code in your ModelAdmin classes.

[nshafer]

Gotcha, not at the moment, sorry.