Hitting an API from Django admin Panel

Question

In Django admin Panel. I have a model which has fields like userID, name, status. I want to call an API (e.g:- www.xyx.com?user=userID&status='approved') when status="approved" is selected and click on save button.

Answer 1

You can override the save_model() method in ModelAdmin. From there, you can make the API request before delegating the save operation itself to the parent class.

For example, assuming your model class is called MyModel, and that you are using the Requests library to call the API:

from django.contrib import admin
import requests

class MyModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):

    def save_model(self, request, obj, form, change):
        if obj.status == 'approved':
            # Make the API call
            requests.get('http://www.example.com', params={'user': obj.userID, 'status': 'approved'})
        # Delegate the save to the parent class
        super().save_model(request, obj, form, change)