Django custom save model admin page

Question

When overriding the django save_model method, how do I extract the key value. Let's say the admin page has a input for the key "name". How do I extract that value in the method:

def save_model(self, request, obj, form, change):
    //request.name?

Answer 1

You can access a field by making use of form.cleaned_data , like this:

def save_model(self, request, obj, form, change):
    name = form.cleaned_data['name']
    # ...