Creating read-only fields for admin panel in Google app engine and Django

Question

Hi all,

How can we create read-only or the non-editable fields in the admin panel? Following is a code snippet from my model:

class AnswerVote(db.Model):
   answer = db.ReferenceProperty(Reply,required = True,editable= False)
   vote = db.BooleanProperty(default = False,editable= False)
   voter = db.ReferenceProperty(User,editable= False)

I have tried editable = False and readonly_fields but nothing seems to work.

I am getting an error message: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'editable'.

Do these things not work on App engine? and if yes, is there an alternative for the same?

Please suggest.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

These things don't work in Google App Engine, since GAE is based on Django 0.96, and readonly_fields and editable = False were part of Django 1.2.

Answer 2

Your datastore models aren't used by the admin console. The admin consoles (both local and production) use the low-level datastore module to read your datastore directly, so there's no way to specify things in your model that affect them.