How to make a “create-only” non-editable field in django admin

im looking for some solution about make a “create-only” field on django admin using models. I saw some questions before, but no one can answer the core question: the field should appear when the user are creating on admin panel, but i dont want to be able to edit.

models.py

class Fonte(Always):
    source_slug = models.CharField(max_length=255)

admin.py

@admin.register(Fonte)
class FonteAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
     readonly_fields = ['source_slug']

the “readonly_fields” solves the problem in the matter of editing in the future, but ends up forbidding when creating.

Problem: Im using this field to make a hash and i dont wanna this change evermore.. I thought about using a second field that would generate a hash on top of the editable one field in the creation, after that the field would be “dead”, but that seems to me to be contrary to the 2 way of normalization. Is there any more elegant way?

Answer

Override get_readonly_fields in your Admin class like that:

def get_readonly_fields(self, request, obj=None):
    if obj:
        return ['source_slug'] 
    return []

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