Recommendations for where to override CRUD logic

[lovetoburnswhen]

I was wondering if there were any good override points for introducing custom logic into the CRUD operations.

Ideally there would be something like ModelAdmin._custom_create(self, **kwargs) that would receive the validated form data and would be separate from any HTTP/user-facing stuff

[aminalaee]

Hey,

Just to be clear, why do you need to implement the whole create logic? Why won't some events like ModelAdmin.after_model_created(self, model) help you add your logic?

And at the moment we don't have either of those, I was just wondering what your use-case is.

[lovetoburnswhen]

My app funnels all CRUD operations through a set of CRUDServices which handle things like logging, audit trail/history table, cascades, etc.

Ideally I'd be able to replace MyModel(**kwargs) with MyModelService.create(**kwargs) so CRUD operations performed via the admin GUI utilize the same code as those performed through the API

[aminalaee]

Yeah this makes sense now. I just need to figure out how to handle both sync and async versions, probably the easiest way is to have async def create and def create_sync which the SQLAdmin will call both but you can implement either based on your case.

[lovetoburnswhen]

Another way could be to break up the Admin.create() method which currently does a lot of stuff internally. Maybe even something as simple as self._get_form_context -> {"request": ..., "model_admin": ..., "form": ...}. The remainder is small enough to duplicate without too much overhead.