Bug in displaying Recent Actions

[binaryblood]

Recent Actions contains a bug. When I add a data for a model, the recent actions is not showing the value returned from __str__() method of the model. Instead it shows like Person object(101), Employee object(121). But I see your screenshot displaying Document 1. Why is that happening? Whats the problem actually? I'm using Django 2.0.

[douglasmiranda]

I will check this out! 👍

[douglasmiranda]

I've tried couldn't reproduce here. If you have this problem again, provide the code so we can reproduce. =]

[merwok]

I have seen this when I add objects in the admin before adding a __str__ method to the model class; new log entries after I add the method show the nice string version.

I suppose the admin log saves a string version of the object (rather than fetching the object and calling str at display time).

[douglasmiranda]

yep @merwok! That's exactly what happens! xD

• https://github.com/django/django/blob/2.1.7/django/contrib/admin/models.py#L58
• https://github.com/django/django/blob/2.1.7/django/contrib/admin/options.py#L808