feat: collect all models including auto created ones and excluding no…

…n-managed ones (#550)

feat: automatically register m2m fields for models when opting to auto register models

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 - feat: Added pre-log and post-log signals. ([#483](https://github.com/jazzband/django-auditlog/pull/483))
 - feat: Make timestamp in LogEntry overwritable. ([#476](https://github.com/jazzband/django-auditlog/pull/476))
 - feat: Support excluding field names globally when ```AUDITLOG_INCLUDE_ALL_MODELS``` is enabled. ([#498](https://github.com/jazzband/django-auditlog/pull/498))
+- feat: Improved auto model registration to include auto-created models and exclude non-managed models, and automatically register m2m fields for models. ([#550](https://github.com/jazzband/django-auditlog/pull/550))
 
 #### Fixes
 

auditlog/registry.py

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 )
 
 from django.apps import apps
-from django.db.models import Model
+from django.db.models import ManyToManyField, Model
 from django.db.models.base import ModelBase
 from django.db.models.signals import (
     ModelSignal,
@@ -336,12 +336,28 @@ def register_from_settings(self):
             exclude_models = self._get_exclude_models(
                 settings.AUDITLOG_EXCLUDE_TRACKING_MODELS
             )
-            models = apps.get_models()
 
-            for model in models:
+            for model in apps.get_models(include_auto_created=True):
                 if model in exclude_models:
                     continue
-                self.register(model)
+
+                meta = model._meta
+                if not meta.managed:
+                    continue
+
+                m2m_fields = [
+                    m.name for m in meta.get_fields() if isinstance(m, ManyToManyField)
+                ]
+
+                exclude_fields = [
+                    i.related_name
+                    for i in meta.related_objects
+                    if i.related_name and not i.related_model._meta.managed
+                ]
+
+                self.register(
+                    model=model, m2m_fields=m2m_fields, exclude_fields=exclude_fields
+                )
 
         self._register_models(settings.AUDITLOG_INCLUDE_TRACKING_MODELS)
 

auditlog_tests/models.py

@@ -304,6 +304,29 @@ class SerializeNaturalKeyRelatedModel(models.Model):
     history = AuditlogHistoryField(delete_related=False)
 
 
+class SimpleNonManagedModel(models.Model):
+    """
+    A simple model with no special things going on.
+    """
+
+    text = models.TextField(blank=True)
+    boolean = models.BooleanField(default=False)
+    integer = models.IntegerField(blank=True, null=True)
+    datetime = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)
+
+    history = AuditlogHistoryField()
+
+    def __str__(self):
+        return self.text
+
+    class Meta:
+        managed = False
+
+
+class AutoManyRelatedModel(models.Model):
+    related = models.ManyToManyField(SimpleModel)
+
+
 auditlog.register(AltPrimaryKeyModel)
 auditlog.register(UUIDPrimaryKeyModel)
 auditlog.register(ProxyModel)

auditlog_tests/tests.py

@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
 from auditlog_tests.models import (
     AdditionalDataIncludedModel,
     AltPrimaryKeyModel,
+    AutoManyRelatedModel,
     CharfieldTextfieldModel,
     ChoicesFieldModel,
     DateTimeFieldModel,
@@ -55,6 +56,7 @@
     SimpleMappingModel,
     SimpleMaskedModel,
     SimpleModel,
+    SimpleNonManagedModel,
     UUIDPrimaryKeyModel,
 )
 
@@ -1136,7 +1138,7 @@ def test_register_models_register_app(self):
 
         self.assertTrue(self.test_auditlog.contains(SimpleExcludeModel))
         self.assertTrue(self.test_auditlog.contains(ChoicesFieldModel))
-        self.assertEqual(len(self.test_auditlog.get_models()), 23)
+        self.assertEqual(len(self.test_auditlog.get_models()), 25)
 
     def test_register_models_register_model_with_attrs(self):
         self.test_auditlog._register_models(
@@ -1330,6 +1332,32 @@ def test_registration_error_if_bad_serialize_params(self):
                 SimpleModel, serialize_kwargs={"fields": ["text", "integer"]}
             )
 
+    @override_settings(AUDITLOG_INCLUDE_ALL_MODELS=True)
+    def test_register_from_settings_register_all_models_excluding_non_managed_models(
+        self,
+    ):
+        self.test_auditlog.register_from_settings()
+
+        self.assertFalse(self.test_auditlog.contains(SimpleNonManagedModel))
+
+    @override_settings(AUDITLOG_INCLUDE_ALL_MODELS=True)
+    def test_register_from_settings_register_all_models_and_figure_out_m2m_fields(self):
+        self.test_auditlog.register_from_settings()
+
+        self.assertIn(
+            "related", self.test_auditlog._registry[AutoManyRelatedModel]["m2m_fields"]
+        )
+
+    @override_settings(AUDITLOG_INCLUDE_ALL_MODELS=True)
+    def test_register_from_settings_register_all_models_including_auto_created_models(
+        self,
+    ):
+        self.test_auditlog.register_from_settings()
+
+        self.assertTrue(
+            self.test_auditlog.contains(AutoManyRelatedModel.related.through)
+        )
+
 
 class ChoicesFieldModelTest(TestCase):
     def setUp(self):