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Combined CreateView and UpdateView

By combining the CreateView and UpdateView, you can significantly reduce repetition when processing complex forms (for example, with multiple inline formsets), by only writing the get_context_data and form_valid functions once. This class can be used just like a normal CreateView or UpdateView. Note that if you're trying to use it as an UpdateView but it cannot find the requested object, it will behave as a CreateView, rather than showing a 404 page.

  • generic-view
  • class-based-generic-view
  • UpdateView
  • CreateView
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Make fixtures and follow relationships.

Inspired and based on https://djangosnippets.org/snippets/918/ Improvements: - Supports natural keys - Uses Django's Collector so hopefully follows reverse relationships - Fixes problem when you don't specify a slice - PEP8 etc.

  • fixtures
  • command
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Automatic CRUD urls from your models...

Just extends your models from this One... is abstract so, it will not generate a table. Now, in your urls.py do this: from django.conf.urls.defaults import * from animals.models import Dog, Cat, Bird urlpatterns = patterns('animals.views', url(r'^$', 'index', {},Dog._meta.app_label), ) dog=Dog() cat=Cat() bird=Bird() urlpatterns+=dog.build_generic_CRUD_urls(Dog) urlpatterns+=cat.build_generic_CRUD_urls(Cat) urlpatterns+=bird.build_generic_CRUD_urls(Bird) then you can create the templates, and get the urls like this: {{ object.get_absolute_url }} View {{ object.get_update_url }} Edit {{ object.get_delete_url }} Delete {{ dummy_object.get_create_url }} Create dummy_object is a quick and dirty solution until I find some better... With all these you can create 54 functional and low detail CRUDS in one hour. :D Enjoy!

  • model
  • url
  • generation
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Email or username authentication with masquerading

This backend will allow you to have users login using either their username or the email address as it is in the User model. In addition, it will allow anyone with the staff priveleges to login as another user. The method is to user the user you wish to masquerade as (either email/username) as the username and then a string of the format *username*/*password* as the password, where *username* is the username of the staff member, and *password* is their password.

  • authentication
  • email
  • login
  • auth
  • backend
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ajax_validator generic view

Sample jQuery javascript to use this view: $(function(){ $("#id_username, #id_password, #id_password2, #id_email").blur(function(){ var url = "/ajax/validate-registration-form/?field=" + this.name; var field = this.name; $.ajax({ url: url, data: $("#registration_form").serialize(), type: "post", dataType: "json", success: function (response){ if(response.valid) { $("#"+field+"_errors").html("Sounds good"); } else { $("#"+field+"_errors").html(response.errors); } } }); }); }); For each field you will have to put a div/span with id like fieldname_errors where the error message will be shown.

  • ajax
  • javascript
  • view
  • generic
  • jquery
  • validation
  • form
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Ajax required decorator

Checks if the request is an AJAX request, if not it returns an HttpResponseNotFound. It looks for the XMLHttpRequest value in the HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH header. Major javascript frameworks (jQuery, etc.) send this header in every AJAX request.

  • ajax
  • decorator
  • decorators
  • xmlhttprequest
  • ajax-required
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Flash Message Template Tag

Flash message add-on for Django. Uses sessions. Behavior is such that you set a flash message in a view. That message is stored in the sesssion. Then whenever it is that the message gets displayed, it is removed from the session (never to be heard from again) **Installation:** In your settings, enable the following items. TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS django.core.context_processors.request MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware Then put it into a file called flash.py in your templatetags directory. **Usage:** It's pretty simple. Do something like this in your view .. >>>request.session['flash_msg'] = 'Your changes have been save' >>>request.session['flash_params'] = {'type': 'success'} And maybe put something like this in your template {% load flash %} {% flash %} <h2>{{ params.type }}</h2> {{ msg }} {% endflash %} It also support a flash template, you can specify a file FLASH_TEMPLATE in your settings file and then that file will be rendered with msg and params as available variable. Usage for this would simply be `{% flash_template %}` and then you gotta make a template file that does whatever you like. Outside of that just be aware you need the Django session middleware and request context installed in your app to use this.

  • template
  • flash
  • message
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Inject request into functions

Long story short: * Django lets you call functions in templates, but you can't pass any parameters. * Sometimes you need to use the request object to perform certain tasks, such as determining whether the current user has permission to do something. * The recommended approach is to call functions that require parameters in the view, and then pass the results as variables in the context. This sometimes feels a bit overkill. * Creating a templatetag to call any function with any parameter will definitely break the intention for not letting functions to be called with parameters in templates. * So, what if we could tell django to inject the request into certain functions? That's what this decorator is for. For instance, suppose you have a model: class SomeModel(models.Model): ... def current_user_can_do_something(self, request): ...some logic here using request... You could use the decorator like this: class SomeModel(models.Model): ... @inject_request def current_user_can_do_something(self, request=None): ...some logic here using request... And in the template go straight to: {{ somemodel_instance.current_user_can_do_something }} So that the decorator would perform some operations to find the request in the frame tree and inject it if found. The assertions are intented to make sure things will work even if the request cannot be found, so that the coder may program defensively.

  • templates
  • request
  • decorators
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"Link To" helper tag

Simple template tag that assumes some common conventions in order to quickly get a link to a specific model instance.

  • template
  • models
  • links
  • tags
  • anchors
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Batch querysets

Most of the time when I need to iterate over Whatever.objects.all() in a shell script, my machine promptly reminds me that sometimes even 4GB isn't enough memory to prevent swapping like a mad man, and bringing my laptop to a crawl. I've written 10 bazillion versions of this code. Never again. **Caveats** Note that you'll want to order the queryset, as ordering is not guaranteed by the database and you might end up iterating over some items twice, and some not at all. Also, if your database is being written to in between the time you start and finish your script, you might miss some items or process them twice.

  • queryset
  • batch
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tweetparser filter

Django Template Filter that parse a tweet in plain text and turn it with working Urls Ceck it on [GitHub](https://github.com/VincentLoy/tweetparser-django-template-filter) # tweetParser Django Template Filter this is a port of [tweetParser.js](https://github.com/VincentLoy/tweetParser.js) to work as a Django template filter ## How does it work ? Once installed, just : ``` <p>{{ your_tweet|tweetparser }}</p> ``` ## Installation Take a look at the [Django Documentation](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/howto/custom-template-tags/) #### You can change the classes given to each anchor tags ``` USER_CLASS = 'tweet_user' URL_CLASS = 'tweet_url' HASHTAG_CLASS = 'hashtag' ```

  • filter
  • templatetag
  • templatetags
  • twitter
  • parse
  • parser
  • tweet
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Updated - Template context debugger with (I)Pdb

Tag to inspect template context, filter to inspect variable. Originally by denis, [http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1550/](http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1550/). This just extracts variables from the context to locals for quicker access and autocompletion (When using ipdb). Additionally, 'vars' holds context keys for quick reference to whats available in the template.

  • template
  • debug
  • context
  • pdb
  • ipdb
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Upload, Progressbar with sessions

This script is an adaptation from http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/678/ . Here, it doesnt use the cache middleware but relies on sessions. The script set a session cookie to identify the upload and track it to make it available for a progress bar like this one : http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/679/ . Note the progress bar cannot work with development server as it is single-threaded. Tested with apache/mod_python and mod_wsgi. any comments appreciated ;)

  • upload
  • handler
  • sessions
  • progressbar
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TestSettingsManager: temporarily change settings for tests

This TestSettingsManager class takes some of the pain out of making temporary changes to settings for the purposes of a unittest or doctest. It will keep track of the original settings and let you easily revert them back when you're done. It also handles re-syncing the DB if you modify INSTALLED_APPS, which is especially handy if you have some test-only models in tests/models.py. This makes it easy to dynamically get those models synced to the DB before running your tests. Sample doctest usage, for testing an app called "app_under_test," that has a tests/ sub-module containing a urls.py for testing URLs, a models.py with some testing models, and a templates/ directory with test templates: >>> from test_utils import TestManager; mgr = TestManager() >>> import os >>> mgr.set(INSTALLED_APPS=('django.contrib.contenttypes', ... 'django.contrib.sessions', ... 'django.contrib.auth', ... 'app_under_test', ... 'app_under_test.tests'), ... ROOT_URLCONF='app_under_test.tests.urls', ... TEMPLATE_DIRS=(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), ... 'templates'),)) ...do your doctests... >>> mgr.revert()

  • settings
  • test
  • syncdb
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