Closing a django admin add related object popup window on save

Question

In the django admin, when a user successfully saves (after my clean method) a new or changed related object which was edited in a popup, I'd like the popup to close instead of going to a different view.

I believe I could use response_change or response_add to get it to go to a different view, but is there a way I can get the window to close?

Answer 1

Look at what the original response_change or response_add methods do: they return a piece of javascript that calls a JS method in the parent window, which closes the popup.

return HttpResponse('''
   <script type="text/javascript">
      opener.dismissAddAnotherPopup(window);
   </script>'''

and in the parent window, have a script that has the relevant method:

function dismissAddAnotherPopup(win) {
    win.close();
}

(The original version passes more parameters, so it updates the parent window with the new object, but you don't need that if you just want to close the window.)