actix-admin/docs/content/docs/adding-crud-models.md
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title: "Adding Models & Views"
date: 2023-01-17T11:44:56+01:00
draft: false
weight: 2
---
# Adding CRUD Models
CRUD Models can be added to the AdminInterface which will render a HTML table and the CRUD functions in the View.
## Struct Annotations
The struct for which the view is generated needs to be annotated and at least requires a primary key with the annotation ```#[actix_admin(primary_key)]```.
```rust
use actix_admin::prelude::*;
pub struct Model {
#[sea_orm(primary_key)]
#[serde(skip_deserializing)]
#[actix_admin(primary_key)]
pub id: i32,
pub comment: String
}
// Custom Validation Functions
impl ActixAdminModelValidationTrait<ActiveModel> for Entity {}
// Custom Search Filters
impl ActixAdminModelFilterTrait<Entity> for Entity {}
```
## Derive Implementations
Actix-Admin relies on two traits to display models which can either be implemented automatically by Macros or manually:
* **ActixAdminViewModelTrait**: Handles how the CRUD Tables are displayed
* **ActixAdminModelTrait**: Acts as an abstraction between the internal ViewModel and the DB-specific interactions
These can be implemented manually or auto derived by using the following macros:
* DeriveActixAdmin
* DeriveActixAdminModel
* DeriveActixAdminViewModel
```rust
use sea_orm::entity::prelude::*;
#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, DeriveEntityModel, Deserialize, Serialize,
DeriveActixAdmin,
DeriveActixAdminModel,
DeriveActixAdminViewModel
)]
#[sea_orm(table_name = "comment")]
pub struct Model {
#[sea_orm(primary_key)]
#[serde(skip_deserializing)]
#[actix_admin(primary_key)]
pub id: i32,
pub comment: String
}
```
## Add the Views to Actix-Admin
Within the ActixAdminBuilder, the entity can be added as per following code and they will appear in the NavBar in the admin interface.
```rust
fn create_actix_admin_builder() -> ActixAdminBuilder {
let mut admin_builder = ActixAdminBuilder::new(configuration);
let comment_view_model = ActixAdminViewModel::from(Comment);
admin_builder.add_entity::<Comment>(&comment_view_model);
admin_builder
}
```
## View Groups
Views / Models can be grouped in the Navbar by using the following functions instead of ```admin_builder.add_entity```:
```rust
admin_builder.add_entity::<Comment>(&comment_view_model);
admin_builder.add_entity_to_category::<Comment>(&comment_view_model, "Group 1");
```
## Additional Model Attributes
More attributes can be added to the model struct properties:
| | | |
|----|----|----|
| primary_key | required | defines which column is used for the primary key of the model |
| html_input_type=<String> | optional | add the defined value such as *email* as input type to the html input field
| select_list | optional | Where a dropdown is rendered for the specific entity, needs to match the name of a struct or an enum |
| searchable | optional | Adds a search field to the table allowing to search the specific column |
| textarea | optional | renders a textarea instead of a text input field
| file_upload | optional | renders a file upload field, storing the filename in the column, column must be a string |
| not_empty | optional | disallow empty strings such as "" |
| list_sort_position=<usize> | optional | orders the column in the list view by ascending position |
| list_hide_column<bool> | optional | hides the column in the list view |