Flask Admin Display Enum Value Instead Of Name

I have a model which uses an enum to define an access level as follows: class DevelModelView(ModelView): edit_modal = True def is_accessible(self): return current_

Solution 1:

If you have several enum types to display, rather than creating individual column_formatters you can update the column_type_formatters that Flask-Admin uses.

Example

from flask_admin.model import typefmt


class AccessLevel(Enum):
    DEVEL = 'Developer'
    ADMIN = 'Administrator'
    STAFF = 'Staff Member'

# ...

MY_DEFAULT_FORMATTERS = dict(typefmt.BASE_FORMATTERS)

MY_DEFAULT_FORMATTERS.update({
   AccessLevel: lambda view, access_level_enum: access_level_enum.value  # could use a function here
})


class DevelModelView(ModelView):

    column_type_formatters = MY_DEFAULT_FORMATTERS

    #  ...

Also consider setting up the AccessLevel choices as described in this SO answer. It means you don't have to repeat the enum name/values in your model view definition. Note the __str__ and __html__ methods in the AccessLevel class.

Example

from flask_admin.model import typefmt
from wtforms import SelectField


class AccessLevel(Enum):
    DEVEL = 'Developer'
    ADMIN = 'Administrator'
    STAFF = 'Staff Member'

    def __str__(self):
        return self.name  # value string

    def __html__(self):
        return self.value  # option labels


def enum_field_options(enum):
    """Produce WTForm Field instance configuration options for an Enum

    Returns a dictionary with 'choices' and 'coerce' keys, use this as
    **enum_fields_options(EnumClass) when constructing a field:

    enum_selection = SelectField("Enum Selection", **enum_field_options(EnumClass))

    Labels are produced from enum_instance.__html__() or
    str(eum_instance), value strings with str(enum_instance).

    """
    assert not {'__str__', '__html__'}.isdisjoint(vars(enum)), (
        "The {!r} enum class does not implement a __str__ or __html__ method")

    def coerce(name):
        if isinstance(name, enum):
            # already coerced to instance of this enum
            return name
        try:
            return enum[name]
        except KeyError:
            raise ValueError(name)

    return dict(choices=[(v, v) for v in enum], coerce=coerce)


class DevelModelView(ModelView):

    column_type_formatters = MY_DEFAULT_FORMATTERS

    #  ...

    form_overrides = {
        'access': SelectField,
    }

    form_args = {
        'access': enum_field_options(AccessLevel),
    }

    # ...

Solution 2:

You need column_formatters functionality to display proper values in the table. Formatter function is defined like this:

def access_level_formatter(view, context, model, name):
    db_value = getattr(model, name)
    enum_value = getattr(AccessLevel, db_value)
    return enum_value.value

And you need to specify this formatter in the view class that it is used for the access column:

class DevelStaffModelView(DevelModelView):
    column_formatters = {
        'access': access_level_formatter,
    }