# How to get the value of rendered field in django admin **URL:** \ **Category:** The Admin\ **Created:** [March 7, 2026, 8:17am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/how-to-get-the-value-of-rendered-field-in-django-admin/44399 "2026-03-07T08:17:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mia](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/mia/32/24939_2.png) [@mia](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/mia)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2026, 8:17am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/how-to-get-the-value-of-rendered-field-in-django-admin/44399/1 "2026-03-07T08:17:53Z")
I create pytest test and want to get rendered field which logic can change depending from user. It can be tricky due to a singleton problem in the admin [How to solve the singleton problem in Django ModelAdmin. - DEV Community](https://dev.to/danilovmy/how-to-solve-the-singleton-problem-in-django-modeladmin-g42). The code is like: ```auto from django.test import Client from models import Message @pytest.fixture(scope="session") def manager1_browser_client(django_db_setup, django_db_blocker): with django_db_blocker.unblock(): manager = User.objects.get(username='manager1') client = Client() client.manager_user = manager client.login(username=manager.username, password=settings.ADMIN_PASSWORD) yield client def test_manager_cannot_see_sensitive_data(manager1_browser_client): ... msg = Message.objects.create() url = reverse(f"admin:{app_name}_{message_model_name}_change", args=[msg.pk]) response = manager1_browser_client.get(url) # How to assert, that restricted data is not in field of msg.data in the admin pannel, but can be in another rendered fields of this object? ``` I get from manager1\_browser\_client.get(url) the response object. And this not works response.context.keys() with error {TypeError}TypeError(“unhashable type: ‘ContextDict’”) Why does it happen? I would like to get all possible keys, because I can’t get my field value by response.context[‘data’] that was discussed here [How to access context from a custom django-admin command?](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/how-to-access-context-from-a-custom-django-admin-command/18356) . I want to get the value that was returned in the reality in one of fileds for test. And I don’t want to call ModelAdmin object directly or use beautifullsoup for that. Can I do it via .context? Or are any other good ways? ---
**Author:** ![anefta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/anefta/32/10649_2.png) [@anefta](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/anefta)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2026, 11:38pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/how-to-get-the-value-of-rendered-field-in-django-admin/44399/2 "2026-03-11T23:38:07Z")
Did you print the response object? What you get? `print(type(response.context))` Print here also this: `context_dict = dict(response.context) print(context_dict.keys())` ---
**Author:** ![mia](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/mia/32/24939_2.png) [@mia](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/mia)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2026, 7:38am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/how-to-get-the-value-of-rendered-field-in-django-admin/44399/3 "2026-03-13T07:38:07Z")
> [@anefta](#): > > type(response.context \ > [@anefta](#): > > context\_dict = dict(response.context) {TypeError}TypeError(“unhashable type: ‘ContextDict’”) ---
**Author:** ![anefta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/anefta/32/10649_2.png) [@anefta](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/anefta)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2026, 9:40am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/how-to-get-the-value-of-rendered-field-in-django-admin/44399/4 "2026-03-13T09:40:06Z")
Ok, let’s try this : `flat_context = response.context.flatten()` `print(flat_context.keys())` I suspect the flattening is messed up somehow when you directly call `response.context.keys()` ---
**Author:** ![mia](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/mia/32/24939_2.png) [@mia](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/mia)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2026, 1:24pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/how-to-get-the-value-of-rendered-field-in-django-admin/44399/5 "2026-03-13T13:24:46Z")
> [@anefta](#): > > flat\_context = response.context.flatten() {AttributeError}AttributeError(“‘ContextList’ object has no attribute ‘flatten’”) ---
**Author:** ![anefta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/anefta/32/10649_2.png) [@anefta](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/anefta)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2026, 2:00pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/how-to-get-the-value-of-rendered-field-in-django-admin/44399/6 "2026-03-16T14:00:54Z")
```auto safe_keys = set() for ctx in response.context: for d in ctx.dicts: for key in d.keys(): if isinstance(key, str): safe_keys.add(key) print(sorted(safe_keys)) ``` ---
**Author:** ![mia](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/mia/32/24939_2.png) [@mia](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/mia)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2026, 3:11pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/how-to-get-the-value-of-rendered-field-in-django-admin/44399/7 "2026-03-16T15:11:06Z")
> ``` > for key in d.keys(): > > ``` E AttributeError: ‘RequestContext’ object has no attribute ‘keys’ ---
**Author:** ![anefta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/anefta/32/10649_2.png) [@anefta](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/anefta)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2026, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/how-to-get-the-value-of-rendered-field-in-django-admin/44399/8 "2026-03-16T16:23:19Z")
```auto safe_keys = set() for ctx in response.context: flat_dict = ctx.flatten() safe_keys.update(flat_dict.keys()) print(sorted(safe_keys)) ``` ---
**Author:** ![mia](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/mia/32/24939_2.png) [@mia](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/mia)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2026, 8:11pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/how-to-get-the-value-of-rendered-field-in-django-admin/44399/9 "2026-03-17T20:11:07Z")
```auto for ctx in response.context: > flat_dict = ctx.flatten() ... def flatten(self): """ Return self.dicts as one dictionary. """ flat = {} for d in self.dicts: > flat.update(d) E ValueError: dictionary update sequence element #0 has length 1; 2 is required d = [{'True': True, 'False': False, 'None': None}, {}, {}, {'site_title': 'Django Admin', 'site_header': '...rib.admin.templatetags.base.InclusionAdminNode object at 0x730ee7e76fe0>, \n\n'>]>}] flat = {'False': False, 'None': None, 'True': True} self = [{'True': True, 'False': False, 'None': None}, [{'True': True, 'False': False, 'None': None}, {}, {}, {'site_title': '...ib.admin.templatetags.base.InclusionAdminNode object at 0x730ee7e76fe0>, \n\n'>]>}]] /usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/django/template/context.py:120: ValueError ``` ---
**Author:** ![anefta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/anefta/32/10649_2.png) [@anefta](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/anefta)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2026, 11:54pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/how-to-get-the-value-of-rendered-field-in-django-admin/44399/10 "2026-03-19T23:54:25Z")
```auto safe_keys = set() for ctx in response.context: for d in getattr(ctx, 'dicts', []): if isinstance(d, dict): safe_keys.update([k for k in d.keys() if isinstance(k, str)]) elif isinstance(d, list): for item in d: if isinstance(item, dict): safe_keys.update([k for k in item.keys() if isinstance(k, str)]) print(sorted(safe_keys)) ``` ---
**Author:** ![mia](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/mia/32/24939_2.png) [@mia](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/mia)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2026, 12:59pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/how-to-get-the-value-of-rendered-field-in-django-admin/44399/11 "2026-03-20T12:59:50Z")
The output is: ```auto [ "DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LEVELS", "False", "LANGUAGE_BIDI", "LANGUAGE_CODE", "None", "True", "absolute_url", "add", "add_related_url", "adminform", "app_label", "app_list", "attrs", "available_apps", "block", "can_add_related", "can_change_related", "can_delete_related", "can_view_related", "change", "change_related_template_url", "content_type_id", "csrf_token", "date_label", "docsroot", "error_class", "errors", "field", "fieldset", "forloop", "form_url", "group_choices", "group_index", "group_name", "has_absolute_url", "has_add_permission", "has_change_permission", "has_delete_permission", "has_editable_inline_admin_formsets", "has_file_field", "has_permission", "has_view_permission", "inline_admin_formsets", "is_hidden", "is_nav_sidebar_enabled", "is_popup", "is_popup_var", "label", "log_entries", "media", "messages", "model", "model_has_limit_choices_to", "name", "object_id", "option", "opts", "original", "perms", "preserved_filters", "rendered_widget", "request", "save_as", "save_on_top", "show_changelinks", "site_header", "site_title", "site_url", "subtitle", "tag", "time_label", "title", "to_field", "to_field_var", "url_params", "use_tag", "user", "view_related_url_params", "widget" ] ``` ---
**Author:** ![anefta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/anefta/32/10649_2.png) [@anefta](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/anefta)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2026, 5:18pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/how-to-get-the-value-of-rendered-field-in-django-admin/44399/12 "2026-03-23T17:18:49Z")
That is the exact list of variables the Django Admin passes to the template to render the page. Does it make sense? ---
**Author:** ![anefta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/anefta/32/10649_2.png) [@anefta](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/anefta)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2026, 5:22pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/how-to-get-the-value-of-rendered-field-in-django-admin/44399/13 "2026-03-23T17:22:08Z")
> [@mia](#): > > `"adminform",` Do you see it? So something like that might work: ```auto def get_rendered_field_value(adminform, field_name): for fieldset in adminform: for line in fieldset: for admin_field in line: # Read-only fields store the name in a dict; editable fields store it as an attribute current_name = admin_field.field['name'] if admin_field.is_readonly else admin_field.field.name if current_name == field_name: if admin_field.is_readonly: return admin_field.contents() # The HTML/text rendered to the user return admin_field.field.value() # The value passed to the form widget return None # Field is not rendered on the page at all ``` ---
**Author:** ![mia](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/mia/32/24939_2.png) [@mia](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/mia)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2026, 11:03pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/how-to-get-the-value-of-rendered-field-in-django-admin/44399/14 "2026-03-23T23:03:47Z")
Nice! It works `get_rendered_field_value(response.context['adminform'], "my_field")` Thank you so much for your guidance! So, is the iteration by adminform and fieldsets the one way to do it? I can’t just index them or get values by key as I see. ---
**Author:** ![anefta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/anefta/32/10649_2.png) [@anefta](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/anefta)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2026, 10:05am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/how-to-get-the-value-of-rendered-field-in-django-admin/44399/15 "2026-03-24T10:05:54Z")
It seems that in order to get the _rendered_ value of any field (especially read-only ones), iteration is the best way to do it. You cannot just index `adminform['my_field']` directly because `adminform` is not a dictionary; it is a specialized generator object designed specifically to yield HTML layout blocks (`Fieldsets`, which yield `Lines`, which yield `Fields`).