Displaying Queryset object as values

Using Django Forms & APIs
1

Hello, I have a model called Attr (attributes), its simple key,val lookup for my application’s form to use,

class Attr(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=20, db_index=True)
    val = models.CharField(max_length=30)
    class Meta:
        constraints = [models.UniqueConstraint(fields=['name', 'val'], name='unique attr')]

question, how do I get my Admin panel to show “name” and “val” fields in the admin panel? (I registered this model with admin.py)

Attr.object(1)
Attr.object(2)

etc

also, how can I pass the “val” data to a template, for example I want my form to have a select field w values that come from this Attr table, ie

in my forms.py

eye_color = Attr.objects.filter(name=“eye_color”)

my template also shows Attr.object(1), etc

2

I think I figured out the Admin panel part, updated the Attr model to have def str method

class Attr(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=20, db_index=True)
    val = models.CharField(max_length=30)
    class Meta:
        constraints = [models.UniqueConstraint(fields=['name', 'val'], name='unique attr')]
    def __str__(self):
        ret = self.name + ', ' + self.val
        return ret

now admin form displays name , val
which is more user friendly than Attr.object(1) etc

3

There is another thing that I can suggest you can use it too.
In admin.py do the following code and see the changes in admin site .

from django.contrib import admin
from .models import Attr

@admin.register(Attr)
class AttrAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_display = ["name", "val"]
4

thanks this works, but had to use a tuple

@admin.register(Attr)
class AttrAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_display = ("name", "val")