Admin action for a generic "CSV Export"

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import csv
from django.http import HttpResponse

def export_as_csv_action(description="Export selected objects as CSV file",
                         fields=None, exclude=None, header=True):
    """
    This function returns an export csv action
    'fields' and 'exclude' work like in django ModelForm
    'header' is whether or not to output the column names as the first row
    """
    def export_as_csv(modeladmin, request, queryset):
        """
        Generic csv export admin action.
        based on http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/1697/
        """
        opts = modeladmin.model._meta
        field_names = set([field.name for field in opts.fields])
        if fields:
            fieldset = set(fields)
            field_names = field_names & fieldset
        elif exclude:
            excludeset = set(exclude)
            field_names = field_names - excludeset

        response = HttpResponse(mimetype='text/csv')
        response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename=%s.csv' % unicode(opts).replace('.', '_')

        writer = csv.writer(response)
        if header:
            writer.writerow(list(field_names))
        for obj in queryset:
            writer.writerow([unicode(getattr(obj, field)).encode("utf-8","replace") for field in field_names])
        return response
    export_as_csv.short_description = description
    return export_as_csv

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Comments

macmind (on August 18, 2011):

This might help for folks that need this ordered by the field list given in the admin module: 

writer = csv.DictWriter(response,fields)
writer.writeheader()

for obj in queryset:
    writer.writerow(dict(zip(fields,[unicode(getattr(obj, field)).encode("utf-8","replace") for field in fields])))

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allaby (on November 14, 2011):

I need ordering preserved as mentioned by macmind, but this I'm getting the error "dictionary update sequence element #0 has length 1; 2 is required".

Does anyone have any thoughts on how I can fix this?

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losttrekker (on March 9, 2012):

I updated it a bit so that you could order the fields and also apply different labels to the header row if desired.

Snippet #2712

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