Registering models with the admin app

The Django admin app produces workable CRUD interfaces to Django objects based on the characteristics of the models, with a minimal amount of coding. In this section, we will first look at how to register the models with the admin app and how elements of the interface, such as change lists and change pages, are derived from the model properties. We will conclude with an important exercise that demonstrates how foreign key settings in the model determine the behavior of the object deletion process.

Registering the reviews model

Let’s say that Carol is tasked with improving the Reviews section in Bookr; that is, only the most relevant and comprehensive reviews should be shown, and duplicate or spam entries should be removed. For this, she will need access to the reviews model. As we have seen previously with our investigation of groups and users, the admin app already contains admin pages for the models from the Authentication and Authorization...