Worked with admin interface, cleaning up and adding functionality. There are still some strange behaviour that makes e.g. the presence of inlines to auto-create empty database objects for some strange reason. Inlines are turned off at the moment (so there is no convenient way to add attributes from the admin interface at this time). Creating players now work, but one needs to create all three components (User, Player, Character) in one go and tie them together. The User-admin form was changed to also support multi-word usernames (django default didn't allow spaces).

src/objects/admin.py

@@ -3,15 +3,51 @@
 # in the web admin interface. 
 #
 
-from src.objects.models import ObjAttribute, ObjectDB
+from django import forms
+from django.conf import settings
 from django.contrib import admin
+from src.objects.models import ObjAttribute, ObjectDB
+from src.utils.utils import mod_import
+
+class ObjectAttributeAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
+    list_display = ('id', 'db_key', 'db_obj')
+    list_display_links = ('id', 'db_key')
+    ordering = ('db_obj','db_key', 'id')
+    search_fields = ('^db_key', 'db_obj')
+    save_as = True
+    save_on_top = True
+    list_select_related = True 
+admin.site.register(ObjAttribute, ObjectAttributeAdmin)
 
 class ObjAttributeInline(admin.TabularInline):
     model = ObjAttribute
     fields = ('db_key', 'db_value')
-    max_num = 1
+    extra = 1
 
+class ObjectEditForm(forms.ModelForm):
+    "This form details the look of the fields"
+    class Meta:
+        model = ObjectDB
+    db_typeclass_path = forms.CharField(label="Typeclass",initial=settings.BASE_OBJECT_TYPECLASS,
+         help_text="this defines what 'type' of entity this is. This variable holds a Python path to a module with a valid Evennia Typeclass.")
+    db_permissions = forms.CharField(label="Permissions", required=False,
+         help_text="a comma-separated list of text strings checked by certain locks. They are mainly of use for Character objects. Character permissions overload permissions defined on a controlling Player. Most objects normally don't have any permissions defined.")
+    db_lock_storage = forms.CharField(label="Locks", required=False, widget=forms.Textarea(attrs={'cols':'100', 'rows':'1'}),
+         help_text="locks limit access to an entity. A lock is defined as a 'lock string' on the form 'type:lockfunctions', defining what functionality is locked and how to determine access. Take a look at other Objects to see valid strings. An empty lock means no access is given to anything for anyone. ")
+
+class ObjectCreateForm(forms.ModelForm):
+    "This form details the look of the fields"
+    class Meta:
+        model = ObjectDB
+        fields = ('db_key',)
+    db_typeclass_path = forms.CharField(label="Typeclass",initial=settings.BASE_OBJECT_TYPECLASS,
+         help_text="this defines what 'type' of entity this is. This variable holds a Python path to a module with a valid Evennia Typeclass.")
+    db_permissions = forms.CharField(label="Permissions", initial=settings.PERMISSION_PLAYER_DEFAULT,required=False,
+         help_text="a comma-separated list of text strings checked by certain locks. They are mainly of use for Character objects. Character permissions overload permissions defined on a controlling Player. Most objects normally don't have any permissions defined.")
+
+    
 class ObjectDBAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):    
+
     list_display = ('id', 'db_key', 'db_location', 'db_player', 'db_typeclass_path')
     list_display_links = ('id', 'db_key')
     ordering = ['db_player', 'db_typeclass_path', 'id']
@@ -20,6 +56,56 @@ class ObjectDBAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
     save_as = True 
     save_on_top = True
     list_select_related = True 
-    inlines = [ObjAttributeInline]
+
+    # editing fields setup
+
+    form = ObjectEditForm
+    fieldsets = (
+        (None, {
+                'fields': (('db_key','db_typeclass_path'), ('db_permissions', 'db_lock_storage'), 
+                           ('db_location', 'db_home'), 'db_destination','db_cmdset_storage'
+                           )}),
+        )
+
+    #deactivated temporarily, they cause empty objects to be created in admin
+    #inlines = [ObjAttributeInline]
+
+
+    # Custom modification to give two different forms wether adding or not.
+
+    add_form = ObjectCreateForm
+    add_fieldsets = (
+        (None, {
+                'fields': (('db_key','db_typeclass_path'), 'db_permissions', 
+                           ('db_location', 'db_home'), 'db_destination','db_cmdset_storage'
+                           )}),
+        )
+    def get_fieldsets(self, request, obj=None):
+        if not obj:
+            return self.add_fieldsets
+        return super(ObjectDBAdmin, self).get_fieldsets(request, obj)
+
+    def get_form(self, request, obj=None, **kwargs):
+        """
+        Use special form during creation
+        """
+        defaults = {}
+        if obj is None:
+            defaults.update({
+                    'form': self.add_form,
+                    'fields': admin.util.flatten_fieldsets(self.add_fieldsets),
+                    })
+            defaults.update(kwargs)
+        return super(ObjectDBAdmin, self).get_form(request, obj, **defaults)
+
+    def save_model(self, request, obj, form, change):
+        if not change:
+            # adding a new object
+            obj = obj.typeclass
+            obj.basetype_setup()
+            obj.basetype_posthook_setup()
+            obj.at_object_creation()            
+        obj.at_init()
+        
 
 admin.site.register(ObjectDB, ObjectDBAdmin)

src/objects/models.py

@@ -178,7 +178,8 @@ class ObjectDB(TypedObject):
                                        blank=True, null=True, verbose_name='destination',
                                        help_text='a destination, used only by exit objects.')
     # database storage of persistant cmdsets.
-    db_cmdset_storage = models.CharField('cmdset', max_length=255, null=True)
+    db_cmdset_storage = models.CharField('cmdset', max_length=255, null=True, blank=True,
+                                         help_text="optional python path to a cmdset class.")
 
     # Database manager
     objects = ObjectManager()