Do not use select field to display list of users

[ticosax]

When generating authtoken from admin interface, the defaut html form
is unusable in presence of a large user base.

[lovelydinosaur]

Fair enough. I'm not really sure which of the two cases we should optimize this for. Using raw_ids makes sense if that'll allow it to be usable in all cases, but it's a shame that it'll impact users who don't require this too. Could you include screenshots of how the admin appears in each case. Also perhaps a note on this issue how to monkeypatch/tweak this for users who want the default case? That way we can consider documenting how to most easily customize the admin display for each case.

[ticosax]

raw_id_fields works in 4 steps.

1. you see an empty text field
   
2. you click on the magnifying glass.
3. you are redirected to a list view of users, where you can filter( /admin/auth/user/ ). then you select your user by clinking on its row.
4. you are redirected to the authtoken creation form, with the user field, pre-field with user's pk you just selected.

To be honest raw_id_fields works better with autocomplete.

In other hand, I tried your suggestion, we can monkey patch the Admin class, in our project. It works also.

admin.py

from rest_framework.authtoken.admin import TokenAdmin

TokenAdmin.raw_id_fields = ('user',)

then it is a matter of documenting it.

[lovelydinosaur]

then it is a matter of documenting it.

I think I'd probably prefer that, rather than changing the existing behavior.

[ticosax]

ok, thanks for the feedback.

[jpadilla]

How much I wish raw_id_fields was used by default in Django.