Fixed #22018 -- Fixed checks for ModelAdmin.fields not handling sub-lists.

Flatten a level of sublists before checking for duplicate fields.

When given sublists such as:

```python

class FooAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    fields = ('one', ('one', 'two'))
```

The previous code did not correctly detect the duplicated 'one' field.

Thanks to jwa for the report.

django/contrib/admin/checks.py

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 from itertools import chain
 
-from django.contrib.admin.utils import get_fields_from_path, NotRelationField
+from django.contrib.admin.utils import get_fields_from_path, NotRelationField, flatten
 from django.core import checks
 from django.db import models
 from django.db.models.fields import FieldDoesNotExist
@@ -84,7 +84,8 @@ class BaseModelAdminChecks(object):
                     id='admin.E005',
                 )
             ]
-        elif len(cls.fields) != len(set(cls.fields)):
+        fields = flatten(cls.fields)
+        if len(fields) != len(set(fields)):
             return [
                 checks.Error(
                     'There are duplicate field(s) in "fields".',
@@ -93,7 +94,7 @@ class BaseModelAdminChecks(object):
                     id='admin.E006',
                 )
             ]
-        else:
+
         return list(chain(*[
                 self._check_field_spec(cls, model, field_name, 'fields')
                 for field_name in cls.fields
@@ -132,7 +133,9 @@ class BaseModelAdminChecks(object):
                     id='admin.E011',
                 )
             ]
-        elif len(fieldset[1]['fields']) != len(set(fieldset[1]['fields'])):
+
+        fields = flatten(fieldset[1]['fields'])
+        if len(fields) != len(set(fields)):
             return [
                 checks.Error(
                     'There are duplicate field(s) in "%s[1]".' % label,
@@ -141,7 +144,6 @@ class BaseModelAdminChecks(object):
                     id='admin.E012',
                 )
             ]
-        else:
         return list(chain(*[
             self._check_field_spec(cls, model, fields, '%s[1][\'fields\']' % label)
             for fields in fieldset[1]['fields']

django/contrib/admin/utils.py

@@ -83,15 +83,25 @@ def unquote(s):
     return "".join(res)
 
 
+def flatten(fields):
+    """Returns a list which is a single level of flattening of the
+    original list."""
+    flat = []
+    for field in fields:
+        if isinstance(field, (list, tuple)):
+            flat.extend(field)
+        else:
+            flat.append(field)
+    return flat
+
+
 def flatten_fieldsets(fieldsets):
     """Returns a list of field names from an admin fieldsets structure."""
     field_names = []
     for name, opts in fieldsets:
-        for field in opts['fields']:
+        field_names.extend(
-            if isinstance(field, (list, tuple)):
+            flatten(opts['fields'])
-                field_names.extend(field)
+        )
-            else:
-                field_names.append(field)
     return field_names
 
 

tests/admin_checks/tests.py

@@ -463,3 +463,37 @@ class SystemChecksTestCase(TestCase):
                 )
             ]
             self.assertEqual(errors, expected)
+
+    def test_check_sublists_for_duplicates(self):
+        class MyModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
+            fields = ['state', ['state']]
+
+        errors = MyModelAdmin.check(model=Song)
+        expected = [
+            checks.Error(
+                'There are duplicate field(s) in "fields".',
+                hint=None,
+                obj=MyModelAdmin,
+                id='admin.E006'
+            )
+        ]
+        self.assertEqual(errors, expected)
+
+    def test_check_fieldset_sublists_for_duplicates(self):
+        class MyModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
+            fieldsets = [
+                (None, {
+                    'fields': ['title', 'album', ('title', 'album')]
+                }),
+            ]
+
+        errors = MyModelAdmin.check(model=Song)
+        expected = [
+            checks.Error(
+                'There are duplicate field(s) in "fieldsets[0][1]".',
+                hint=None,
+                obj=MyModelAdmin,
+                id='admin.E012'
+            )
+        ]
+        self.assertEqual(errors, expected)

tests/admin_util/tests.py

@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ from datetime import datetime
 from django.conf import settings
 from django.contrib import admin
 from django.contrib.admin import helpers
-from django.contrib.admin.utils import (display_for_field, flatten_fieldsets,
+from django.contrib.admin.utils import (display_for_field, flatten,
-    label_for_field, lookup_field, NestedObjects)
+    flatten_fieldsets, label_for_field, lookup_field, NestedObjects)
 from django.contrib.admin.views.main import EMPTY_CHANGELIST_VALUE
 from django.contrib.sites.models import Site
 from django.db import models, DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS
@@ -323,6 +323,17 @@ class UtilTests(SimpleTestCase):
         self.assertHTMLEqual(helpers.AdminField(form, 'cb', is_first=False).label_tag(),
                              '<label for="id_cb" class="vCheckboxLabel required inline">&amp;cb</label>')
 
+    def test_flatten(self):
+        flat_all = ['url', 'title', 'content', 'sites']
+        inputs = (
+            ((), []),
+            (('url', 'title', ('content', 'sites')), flat_all),
+            (('url', 'title', 'content', 'sites'), flat_all),
+            ((('url', 'title'), ('content', 'sites')), flat_all)
+        )
+        for orig, expected in inputs:
+            self.assertEqual(flatten(orig), expected)
+
     def test_flatten_fieldsets(self):
         """
         Regression test for #18051