Django admin cutomiztion

Using Django
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Rather than querying a local database I would like to use an external API to retrieve the data to display in the django admin. For simplicities sake I have a model, and plan to retrieve a list of names from the API:

class Person(models.Model):
    first_name = models.CharField()
    last_name = models.CharField()

    class Meta:
        managed = False

As it is not managed it therefore does not create the person table. What is the order of functions I must override in ModelAdmin to

  1. Perform the API call instead of the database lookup
  2. Output the data to a default table in the admin (with first name and last name)
  3. Disable functions such as to add (as this will just be a lookup table)
  4. Use the django admin search to query the external api - ie. perform a new request and display the new data.
2

You could take a look at the Djongo project to see how they handle replacing the access to a relational database with what you can think of as an API-based database, in the admin.