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Notifications Middleware for Session-Backed Messages

simple middleware and context processor for session-based messaging with types Heavily inspired by patches on ticket 4604. Differs in that in this a notification has type. Installation: * add notifications.NotificationMiddleware to MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES * and notifications.notifications to TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS That assumes notifications.py is on pythonpath. If notifications.py lives in your project dir, prefix those with '(projectname).' Example use: * request.notifications.create('Some bland information message.') * request.notifications.create('Some more exciting error message.', 'error') Example template code: `{% if notifications %} <ul id="notifications"> {% for notification in notifications %}<li class="{{ notification.type }}">{{ notification.content }}</li> {% endfor %} </ul> {% endif %}` [rendered example](http://traviscline.com/blog/2008/08/23/django-middleware-session-backed-messaging/)

  • middleware
  • flash
  • notifications
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Command to make fixtures.

"Make fixture" command. Highly useful for making test fixtures. Use it to pick only few items from your data to serialize, restricted by primary keys. By default command also serializes foreign keys and m2m relations. You can turn off related items serialization with `--skip-related` option. How to use: python manage.py makefixture will display what models are installed python manage.py makefixture User[:3] or python manage.py makefixture auth.User[:3] or python manage.py makefixture django.contrib.auth.User[:3] will serialize users with ids 1 and 2, with assigned groups, permissions and content types. python manage.py makefixture YourModel[3] YourModel[6:10] will serialize YourModel with key 3 and keys 6 to 9 inclusively. Of course, you can serialize whole tables, and also different tables at once, and use options of dumpdata: python manage.py makefixture --format=xml --indent=4 YourModel[3] AnotherModel auth.User[:5] auth.Group

  • serialize
  • admin
  • model
  • fixtures
  • tests
  • test
  • management
  • commands
  • fixture
  • command
  • make
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Command to dump data as a python script

This creates a fixture in the form of a python script. Handles: 1. `ForeignKey` and `ManyToManyField`s (using python variables, not IDs) 2. Self-referencing `ForeignKey` (and M2M) fields 3. Sub-classed models 4. `ContentType` fields 5. Recursive references 6. `AutoField`s are excluded 7. Parent models are only included when no other child model links to it There are a few benefits to this: 1. edit script to create 1,000s of generated entries using `for` loops, python modules etc. 2. little drama with model evolution: foreign keys handled naturally without IDs, new and removed columns are ignored The [runscript command by poelzi](http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/6243), complements this command very nicely! e.g. $ ./manage.py dumpscript appname > scripts/testdata.py $ ./manage.py reset appname $ ./manage.py runscript testdata

  • dump
  • manage.py
  • serialization
  • fixtures
  • migration
  • data
  • schema-evolution
  • management
  • commands
  • command
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DebugFooter middleware with syntax highlighting and code inspection

based on Snippet [799](http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/799/) but added code inspection capabilities. Credit goes to django-logging for the actual inspection code. Got the idea from the [This Week in Django](http://blog.michaeltrier.com/2008/6/18/this-week-in-django-26-2008-06-16) Podcast ;) This adds the filename, lineno, functionname and the actual python-code line which caused a sql statement to be executed. Note that i am adding keys to 'connection.queries' dict on request, which may be dangerous, so use with care! The code inspection functionality can be toggled via FRAME_INSPECT.

  • sql
  • middleware
  • debugging
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Verbose template filter : avoid too many if

This tiny template filter saves you the tedious test "if this variable is set, print this text based on this variable". 'verbose' filter takes one parameter : a string containing '%s' which is a placeholder for the value to test. Check those examples : * Replace this : {% if name %} Hello {{ name }}, this is a dummy text {% endif %} * By this : {{ name|verbose:"Hello %s this is a dummy text" }} This is also usefull for HTML : {{ image|verbose:"<img src=\"%s\" />" }}

  • template
  • filter
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AjaxCheckMiddleware

Simply adds an attribute `is_ajax` to a request object, indicating if the request was made via Ajax. Allows you to reuse a lot of POST processing view code to which you'd like to progressively add Ajax: `if request.is_ajax: return JsonResponse(some_json)` `else: return render_to_response('some_template.html')`

  • middleware
  • ajax
  • request
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Export Database and Media_Root via Admin Interface

This is the view-code to export a database-dump (hardcoded for mysql) or a media_root dump via the admin interface. just add 2 urls patterns to call the views and a small template with a simple form to send a http-post to the views. Note: The downloads are sort of streaming. I have successfully exportet a 2GB media_root as tar-ball without major increase of ram-usage of the django-process.

  • admin
  • export
  • database
  • media-root
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Alternate method of autoloading Django models in ipython

This is a little improvement to the [idea](http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/540/) from sheats a few days ago. I like it over the previous solutions because it doesn't involve doing anything other than running `./manage.py shell` inside your project directory. You don't have to create any files anywhere or remember to call anything, and `ipython` still works fine outside of a Django project. Throw this code in `~/.ipython/ipy_user_conf.py` (`ipythonrc` has apparently been deprecated).

  • django
  • model
  • manage.py
  • shell
  • ipython
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caching parsed templates

Put this code somewhere in one of your INSTALLED_APPS `__init__.py` file. This code will replace the django.template.loader.get_template with cached version. Standard get_template function from django reads and parses the template code every time it's called. This version calls (if DEBUG set to False) it only once per template. After that it gets a Template object from template_cache dictionary. On django http server with template code like that: {% extends "index.html" %} {% block content %} {% if form.has_errors %} <p>Your username and password didn't match. Please try again.</p> {% endif %} <form method="post" action="."> <table> <tr><td><label for="id_username">Username:</label></td><td>{{ form.username }}</td></tr> <tr><td><label for="id_password">Password:</label></td><td>{{ form.password }}</td></tr> </table> <input type="submit" value="login" /> <input type="hidden" name="next" value="{{ next }}" /> </form> {% endblock %} ab -n 100 on mac os x 10.5 core 2 duo 2 ghz with 2 GB of RAM gives forge-macbook:~ forge$ ab -n 100 http://127.0.0.1:8000/login/ This is ApacheBench, Version 2.0.40-dev <$Revision: 1.146 $> apache-2.0 Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/ Copyright 2006 The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/ Benchmarking 127.0.0.1 (be patient).....done Server Software: WSGIServer/0.1 Server Hostname: 127.0.0.1 Server Port: 8000 Document Path: /login/ Document Length: 934 bytes Concurrency Level: 1 Time taken for tests: 0.432934 seconds Complete requests: 100 Failed requests: 0 Write errors: 0 Total transferred: 120200 bytes HTML transferred: 93400 bytes Requests per second: 230.98 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 4.329 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 4.329 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests) Transfer rate: 270.25 [Kbytes/sec] received Connection Times (ms) min mean[+/-sd] median max Connect: 0 0 0.0 0 0 Processing: 3 3 1.5 4 12 Waiting: 3 3 1.2 3 12 Total: 3 3 1.5 4 12 Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms) 50% 4 66% 4 75% 4 80% 4 90% 4 95% 5 98% 10 99% 12 100% 12 (longest request) without template caching, and forge-macbook:~ forge$ ab -n 100 http://127.0.0.1:8000/login/ This is ApacheBench, Version 2.0.40-dev <$Revision: 1.146 $> apache-2.0 Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/ Copyright 2006 The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/ Benchmarking 127.0.0.1 (be patient).....done Server Software: WSGIServer/0.1 Server Hostname: 127.0.0.1 Server Port: 8000 Document Path: /login/ Document Length: 934 bytes Concurrency Level: 1 Time taken for tests: 0.369860 seconds Complete requests: 100 Failed requests: 0 Write errors: 0 Total transferred: 120200 bytes HTML transferred: 93400 bytes Requests per second: 270.37 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 3.699 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 3.699 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests) Transfer rate: 316.34 [Kbytes/sec] received Connection Times (ms) min mean[+/-sd] median max Connect: 0 0 0.0 0 0 Processing: 3 3 0.9 3 9 Waiting: 2 3 0.9 3 8 Total: 3 3 0.9 3 9 Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms) 50% 3 66% 3 75% 3 80% 3 90% 3 95% 5 98% 8 99% 9 100% 9 (longest request) with caching enabled. In both cases DEBUG is set to False.

  • template
  • cache
  • performance
  • optimization
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newforms self-contained login form

A simple login form that does the actual authentification itself. **Usage:** if request.method == "POST": loginform = LoginForm(request.POST) if loginform.login(): return HttpResponseRedirect(redir_url) else: loginform = LoginForm()

  • newforms
  • login
  • auth
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Custom SQL via subquery

You can use custom SQL statements with the existing database API by creating a subquery specified via the `tables` parameter of `extra`. (This has only been tested with MySQL and may not work with all database back-ends.)

  • group-by
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Sphinx Search ORM

An ORM model for the Sphinx full-text search engine. See http://www.sphinxsearch.com/ for more information. It currently supports the following: class MyModel(models.Model): search = SphinxSearch() MyModel.search.query('query') MyModel.search.query('query').order_by('@weight', '@id', 'my_attribute') MyModel.search.query('query').filter(my_attribute=5) MyModel.search.query('query').filter(my_other_attribute=[5, 3,4]) MyModel.search.query('query').exclude(my_attribute=5)[0:10] MyModel.search.query('query').count() SphinxSearch().query('hello').on_index('model_myapp model_myotherapp') Returns an ordered list of the objects in your database. -- Update: New Methods: * count() * index_on(<str index>) * extra(<see django>) * all() (does nothing) * select_related(<see django>) * group_by(<str attribute>, <const function>[, <str sort>) * weights(<list weights>)

  • search
  • sphinx
  • full-text
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youtubize template tag

This snippet is based on djangos urlize filter. It converts http:// links to youtube into youtube-embed statements, so that one can provide a simple link to a youtube video and this filter will embed it. I used it for a fun blog app.

  • youtube
  • embed
  • urlize
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Slightly better media path tag

A slightly improved version of [snippet #195](/snippets/195/) which keeps the logic but makes use of the `simple_tag` decorator to drastically simplify the code. For an alternative to this sort of tag, check out the media context processor in my [template_utils app](http://code.google.com/p/django-template-utils/).

  • template
  • tag
  • media
  • simple_tag
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New forms signup validation

This snippets provide username availability, double email and password validation. You can use it this way : f = SignupForm(request.POST) f.is_valid()

  • newforms
  • email
  • clean
  • signup
  • password
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