Admin error - custom_display_for_JSON.field() got an unexpected keyword argument 'avoid_link'

colateral · August 4, 2025, 8:05pm

I migrated the code to django 5.2.4 from 4.2. All ok withe the view and models.

The issue is in admin. The models that have json fields , after I click the app I got this error.

KenWhitesell · August 4, 2025, 9:49pm

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colateral · August 9, 2025, 9:40am

Installed apps:

‘‘‘ TypeError at /admin/company/address/
’’’ custom_display_for_JSONfield() got an unexpected keyword argument ‘avoid_link’
Request Method: GET
Request URL: http_localhost:8000/admin/company/address/
Django Version: 5.2.5
Exception Type: TypeError
Exception Value:
custom_display_for_JSONfield() got an unexpected keyword argument ‘avoid_link’
Exception Location: D:\Programming@Lumb\fap-new\fap-django.venv\Lib\site-packages\django\contrib\admin\templatetags\admin_list.py, line 246, in items_for_result
Raised during: django.contrib.admin.options.changelist_view
Python Executable: D:\Programming@Lumb\fap-new\fap-django.venv\Scripts\python.exe
Python Version: 3.11.1
Python Path:
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'C:\Program Files\JetBrains\PyCharm ’
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Server time: Sat, 09 Aug 2025 09:29:00 +0000
Error during template rendering
In template D:\Programming@Lumb\fap-new\fap-django.venv\Lib\site-packages\django\contrib\admin\templates\admin\change_list.html, error at line 69

custom_display_for_JSONfield() got an unexpected keyword argument ‘avoid_link’
59 {% block search %}{% search_form cl %}{% endblock %}
60 {% block date_hierarchy %}{% if cl.date_hierarchy %}{% date_hierarchy cl %}{% endif %}{% endblock %}
61
62 <form id=“changelist-form” method=“post”{% if cl.formset and cl.formset.is_multipart %} enctype=“multipart/form-data”{% endif %} novalidate>{% csrf_token %}
63 {% if cl.formset %}
64 {{ cl.formset.management_form }}
65 {% endif %}
66
67 {% block result_list %}
68 {% if action_form and actions_on_top and cl.show_admin_actions %}{% admin_actions %}{% endif %}
69 {% result_list cl %}
70 {% if action_form and actions_on_bottom and cl.show_admin_actions %}{% admin_actions %}{% endif %}
71 {% endblock %}
72 {% block pagination %}{% pagination cl %}{% endblock %}
73
74
75 {% block filters %}
76 {% if cl.has_filters %}
77
78 {% translate ‘Filter’ %}
79 {% if cl.is_facets_optional or cl.has_active_filters %}
Traceback Switch to copy-and-paste view
D:\Programming@Lumb\fap-new\fap-django.venv\Lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\exception.py, line 55, in inner
response = get_response(request)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ …
Local vars
D:\Programming@Lumb\fap-new\fap-django.venv\Lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py, line 220, in _get_response
response = response.render()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ …
Local vars
D:\Programming@Lumb\fap-new\fap-django.venv\Lib\site-packages\django\template\response.py, line 114, in render
self.content = self.rendered_content
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ …
Local vars
D:\Programming@Lumb\fap-new\fap-django.venv\Lib\site-packages\django\template\response.py, line 92, in rendered_content
return template.render(context, self._request)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ …
Local vars
D:\Programming@Lumb\fap-new\fap-django.venv\Lib\site-packages\django\template\backends\django.py, line 107, in render
return self.template.render(context)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ …
Local vars
D:\Programming@Lumb\fap-new\fap-django.venv\Lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py, line 171, in render
return self._render(context)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ …
Local vars
D:\Programming@Lumb\fap-new\fap-django.venv\Lib\site-packages\django\test\utils.py, line 114, in instrumented_test_render
return self.nodelist.render(context)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ …
Local vars
D:\Programming@Lumb\fap-new\fap-django.venv\Lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py, line 1016, in render
return SafeString(“”.join([node.render_annotated(context) for node in self]))
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ …
Local vars
D:\Programming@Lumb\fap-new\fap-django.venv\Lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py, line 1016, in
return SafeString(“”.join([node.render_annotated(context) for node in self]))
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ …
Local vars
D:\Programming@Lumb\fap-new\fap-django.venv\Lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py, line 977, in render_annotated
return self.render(context)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ …
Local vars
D:\Programming@Lumb\fap-new\fap-django.venv\Lib\site-packages\django\template\loader_tags.py, line 159, in render
return compiled_parent._render(context)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ …
Local vars
D:\Programming@Lumb\fap-new\fap-django.venv\Lib\site-packages\django\test\utils.py, line 114, in instrumented_test_render
return self.nodelist.render(context)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ …
Local vars
D:\Programming@Lumb\fap-new\fap-django.venv\Lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py, line 1016, in render
return SafeString(“”.join([node.render_annotated(context) for node in self]))
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ …
Local vars
D:\Programming@Lumb\fap-new\fap-django.venv\Lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py, line 1016, in
return SafeString(“”.join([node.render_annotated(context) for node in self]))
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ …
Local vars
D:\Programming@Lumb\fap-new\fap-django.venv\Lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py, line 977, in render_annotated
return self.render(context)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ …
Local vars
D:\Programming@Lumb\fap-new\fap-django.venv\Lib\site-packages\django\template\loader_tags.py, line 159, in render
return compiled_parent._render(context)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ …
Local vars
D:\Programming@Lumb\fap-new\fap-django.venv\Lib\site-packages\django\test\utils.py, line 114, in instrumented_test_render
return self.nodelist.render(context)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ …
Local vars
D:\Programming@Lumb\fap-new\fap-django.venv\Lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py, line 1016, in render
return SafeString(“”.join([node.render_annotated(context) for node in self]))
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ …
Local vars
D:\Programming@Lumb\fap-new\fap-django.venv\Lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py, line 1016, in
return SafeString(“”.join([node.render_annotated(context) for node in self]))
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ …
Local vars
D:\Programming@Lumb\fap-new\fap-django.venv\Lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py, line 977, in render_annotated
return self.render(context)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ …
Local vars
D:\Programming@Lumb\fap-new\fap-django.venv\Lib\site-packages\django\template\loader_tags.py, line 65, in render
result = block.nodelist.render(context)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ …
Local vars
D:\Programming@Lumb\fap-new\fap-django.venv\Lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py, line 1016, in render
return SafeString(“”.join([node.render_annotated(context) for node in self]))
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ …
Local vars
D:\Programming@Lumb\fap-new\fap-django.venv\Lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py, line 1016, in
return SafeString(“”.join([node.render_annotated(context) for node in self]))
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ …
Local vars
D:\Programming@Lumb\fap-new\fap-django.venv\Lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py, line 977, in render_annotated
return self.render(context)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ …
Local vars
D:\Programming@Lumb\fap-new\fap-django.venv\Lib\site-packages\django\template\loader_tags.py, line 65, in render
result = block.nodelist.render(context)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ …
Local vars
D:\Programming@Lumb\fap-new\fap-django.venv\Lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py, line 1016, in render
return SafeString(“”.join([node.render_annotated(context) for node in self]))
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ …
Local vars
D:\Programming@Lumb\fap-new\fap-django.venv\Lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py, line 1016, in
return SafeString(“”.join([node.render_annotated(context) for node in self]))
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ …
Local vars
D:\Programming@Lumb\fap-new\fap-django.venv\Lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py, line 977, in render_annotated
return self.render(context)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ …
Local vars
D:\Programming@Lumb\fap-new\fap-django.venv\Lib\site-packages\django\contrib\admin\templatetags\base.py, line 45, in render
return super().render(context)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ …
Local vars
D:\Programming@Lumb\fap-new\fap-django.venv\Lib\site-packages\django\template\library.py, line 359, in render
_dict = self.func(*resolved_args, **resolved_kwargs)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ …
Local vars
D:\Programming@Lumb\fap-new\fap-django.venv\Lib\site-packages\django\contrib\admin\templatetags\admin_list.py, line 354, in result_list
“results”: list(results(cl)),
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ …
Local vars
D:\Programming@Lumb\fap-new\fap-django.venv\Lib\site-packages\django\contrib\admin\templatetags\admin_list.py, line 330, in results
yield ResultList(None, items_for_result(cl, res, None))
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ …
Local vars
D:\Programming@Lumb\fap-new\fap-django.venv\Lib\site-packages\django\contrib\admin\templatetags\admin_list.py, line 321, in init
super().init(*items)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ …
Local vars
D:\Programming@Lumb\fap-new\fap-django.venv\Lib\site-packages\django\contrib\admin\templatetags\admin_list.py, line 246, in items_for_result
result_repr = display_for_field(
…
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colateral · August 9, 2025, 9:42am

Hello Ken,

I have to apology. Because I am new user I have limitations in number of characters and links on the post. I replaced all links with http_ also truncate the error output. See above what you requested

Regarding the error …. this is only on Django 5.2.25… for instance 5.1.11 is working fine

KenWhitesell · August 9, 2025, 11:42am

No worries. (But part of the problem is caused by you using the > at the beginning of each posted line instead of surrounding the entire block of text between lines of ``` as I mentioned in my “Side note” above. )

This is a general symptom that you have something in your code, or a third-party module, that is no longer valid in Django 5.2.

I’d start with checking the third-party libraries. A pip list -o will show you which libraries need to be updated. I’d suggest updating them first.

I also see where you are installing django-jsonfield - it’s obsolete and should be removed. (It’s also not needed anymore now that Django provides a built-in JSONfield.)

You have other packages listed that are obsolete and potentially problematic with Django 5.2 such as djangorestframework-filters==1.0.0.dev0 and drf-yasg. (There may be more, these are just a couple that I spot-checked.)

Any Django-specific package without a release in 2025 should be looked at more closely. You can check the github issues for the libraries to see if there’s any reported issues for Django 5.2.

colateral · August 9, 2025, 12:03pm

Thank you. I have all packaged updated to last version. The issue was with django-json that was used by stripe…. I remove it Now all OK. For 5.2 there is a way to know what django libraries are deprecated and what versions are recommended ?

Thank you.

KenWhitesell · August 9, 2025, 12:09pm

I’m not aware of any direct tooling to identify when a package is no longer valid with Django - other than running with the -Wd option to show the deprecation warnings. (e.g. python -Wd manage.py check or python -Wd manage.py runserver, etc)

For third-party libraries, my rule-of-thumb is to stay current. Anytime I touch a project, I look to update the libraries it’s using.

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