AdminURLFieldWidget

This class provides a specialized URL input widget designed for use within the administrative interface. It extends the standard URL input functionality by validating the current value and providing additional context for rendering functional links and localized labels in the admin template. The widget automatically applies specific CSS classes and handles URL quoting for safe display.

Attributes

Attribute	Type	Description
template_name	string = "admin/widgets/url.html"	The path to the HTML template used to render the URL input widget in the Django admin interface.

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Constructor

Signature

def AdminURLFieldWidget(
    attrs: dict = None,
    validator_class: class = URLValidator
) - > null

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
attrs	dict = None	A dictionary containing HTML attributes to be set on the rendered widget.
validator_class	class = URLValidator	The class used to instantiate the URL validator for the widget.

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Signature

def AdminURLFieldWidget(
    attrs: dict = None,
    validator_class: class = URLValidator
) - > null

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
attrs	dict = None	A dictionary of HTML attributes to be added to the rendered widget element.
validator_class	class = URLValidator	The validation class used to verify if the current input value is a properly formatted URL.

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Methods

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get_context()

@classmethod
def get_context(
    name: str,
    value: any,
    attrs: dict
) - > dict

Builds the template context for rendering the widget, including localized labels and a validated URL for the hyperlink reference.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
name	str	The name of the form field associated with this widget.
value	any	The current value of the field to be displayed or validated.
attrs	dict	Additional HTML attributes to include in the widget context.

Returns

Type	Description
dict	A dictionary containing the widget state, localized labels for 'Currently' and 'Change', and the quoted URL if valid.

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