ModelAdmin

[cancan101]

Might be cool to show example / offer a ModelAdmin for PermanentModel which support un-deleting. Would need to modify the queryset used in admin: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1545067/django-specify-which-model-manager-django-admin-should-use and perhaps some way of adding an un-delete action.

[meteozond]

As for me, I don't like the idea allowing users to operate removed objects due to problems of related resolving and sufficient restoring.

But if you really need... It is better to provide it though the separate interface - some kind of recycle bin. You can create separate proxy model with DeletedQuerySet as default:

models.py

class MyModel(PermanentModel):
    # Some fields
    pass

# Needed by `delete_selected` default action
class MyDeletedQuerySet(DeletedQuerySet):
    def delete(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(MyDeletedQuerySet, self).__init__(force=True, *args, **kwargs)

class MyDeletedModel(MyModel)
    objects = QuerySetManager(MyDeletedQuerySet)
    _base_manager = QuerySetManager(MyDeletedQuerySet)
    class Meta:
        proxy=True
    def delete(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(MyDeletedModel, self).__init__(force=True, *args, **kwargs)

Separate model admin with restore action:

admin.py

class MyDeletedModelAdmin(ModelAdmin):
    actions = ['restore', ]
    def restore(self, request, queryset):
        queryset.restore()

admin.site.register(MyDeletedModel, MyDeletedModelAdmin)

[bashu]

@cancan101 try https://github.com/bashu/django-permanent-helpers