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class M2MFilter(admin.SimpleListFilter):
    title = _('yourm2mfield')

    # Parameter for the filter that will be used in the URL query.
    parameter_name = 'yourm2mfield'

    def lookups(self, request, model_admin):
        return ((x.pk, x.title) for x in YourRelatedModel.objects.all())

    def value(self):

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A few remarks on the Django REST Framework

For a good while, I've been interested in the topic of automatically generating and routing views. For my last project, I built a haphazard implementation which ran using an elaborate scheme of mixins and decorators. A veritable monstrosity, it was - and the cognitive load of working with it wasted over a month of my time, allowing the project to slowly descend into limbo. I eventually ended up re-writing the heaps of class-based views by hand. Even though making good use of inheritance helped me tremendously, it was still a chore, and my interest in a tool that would save me some boilerplate code for standard CRUD apps remained.

When I first got a glimpse of the Django REST Framework, I was quite impressed by the browsable API; a quick look at the documentation got me hooked onto the concept of ViewSets and Routers. A few days ago, I decided to finally get my feet wet with the DRF and use it in my latest project. I honestly believed that it would b

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from inspect import isfunction
from django.views.generic import View, CreateView, UpdateView, DeleteView, DetailView, ListView
from django.views.generic.edit import ModelFormMixin
from django.views.generic.detail import SingleObjectMixin

def parse_func_dict(selfobj, d):
	"""
	Recursively goes through a dict, calling functions that refer to a view's
	self and therefore need to be called from within -- such as getting extra
	kwargs for a form constructor based on request data.