Adding a Log entry for an action by a user in a Django App

Question

I need to create a log entry for changes made by a user to the database via the views in my django application.

I have enabled the django-admin module and I can retrieve the logs of the changes made using the admin interface like this:

from django.contrib.admin.models import LogEntry
from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType

recentActions = LogEntry.objects.all()

for each in recentActions:
    print 'Action:', each.action_flag.__str__()
    print 'Message:', each.object_repr
    print 'Table:', ContentType.objects.get(id = each.content_type_id).name

I want to create similar log entries for actions done by other users using the views in my django application. How do I do this ?

Answer 1

You're very close. You just need to create new LogEntry objects and save them. LogEntry has a shortcut function on objects to do this.

from django.contrib.admin.models import LogEntry, ADDITION, CHANGE

LogEntry.objects.log_action(
            user_id=request.user.id,
            content_type_id=ContentType.objects.get_for_model(model_object).pk,
            object_id=object.id,
            object_repr=unicode(object.title),
            action_flag=ADDITION if create else CHANGE)