Template tag: Extend with parameters

Extended extends tag that supports passing parameters, which will be made available in the context of the extended template (and all the way up the hierarchy). It wraps around the orginal extends tag, to avoid code duplication, and to not miss out on possible future django enhancements. Note: The current implementation will override variables passed from your view, too, so be careful. Some of the argument parsing code is based on: http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/11/ Examples: {% xextends "some.html" %} {% xextends "some.html" with title="title1" %} {% xextends "some.html" with title="title2"|capfirst %}

• template
• templatetag
• extends
• parameters

Sun 17 Jan 2021 Read More

Global custom permissions (no model association)

Example (in project/application/models.py): register_custom_permissions_simple((("is_editor", "User is editor"),)) In a view: if not request.user.has_perm('application.is_editor'): return HttpResonseRedirect(LoginUrl)

• auth
• permissions

Thu 11 May 2017 Read More

Digg-like paginator, updated

This is an updated version of http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/628/ now working with Django's new Paginator class, instead of the deprecated ObjectPaginator. See: http://blog.elsdoerfer.name/2008/05/26/diggpaginator-update/

• pagination
• paginator
• digg

Sun 03 Jan 2016 Read More

DRY with common model fields

If you have many models that all share the same fields, this might be an option. Please note that order matters: Your model need to inherit from TimestampedModelBase first, and models.Model second. The fields are added directly to each model, e.g. while they will be duplicated on the database level, you only have to define them once in your python code. Not sure if there is a way to automate the call to TimestampedModelInit(). Tested with trunk rev. 5699. There is probably a slight chance that future revisions might break this.

• models
• model
• inheritance

Tue 02 Sep 2014 Read More

Decorating urlpatterns

One thing I wanted for a while was the ability to basically apply something like @login_required to a bunch of urlpatterns in one go, instead of having to decorate each and every view manually. In this example, the latter two views will always raise a 404.

• urls
• views
• decorators
• urlpatterns

Tue 02 Sep 2014 Read More

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

Tue 02 Sep 2014 Read More

Extended rails flash implementation

This is an extendend version of the Rails Flash implementation by Sean Patrick Hogan that supports different message types. **Setting a flash message:** request.flash.error = 'Item could not be saved' request.flash['error'] = 'Item could not be saved' request.flash['foo'] = 'bar' **Displaying a flash in the view:** <!-- show the error message --> {% if flash.error %}An error occured:{{ flash.error }}{% endif %} <!-- just show the first message found --> {% if flash %}An error occured:{{ flash }}{% endif %} <!-- show all messages --> {% for msg in flash %}{{ msg.type }}: {{ msg.msg }}{% endfor %} Note that it still works with simple strings as well. Feel free to just use it like this: request.flash = "Message" And: {% if flash %}{{ flash }}{% endif %} However, be aware that once you did this, you destroyed the Flash() dict and thus lost the extended functionality. You can use request.flash.clear() to remove all messages.

• flash
• messages
• rails

Tue 02 Sep 2014 Read More

Load templatetag libraries via settings

In your settings file: TEMPLATE_TAGS = ( "djutils.templatetags.sqldebug", ) Make sure load_templatetags() gets called somewhere, for example in your apps __init__.py *Edit: Updated to work with templatetag libraries that use certain critical django-bits.*

• templates
• settings
• tags
• templatetags
• conf

Sat 05 Apr 2014 Read More

newforms: Add field-specific error in form.clean()

This is a bit of a hack, but as far as I can see currently the only way to specify a validation error that is specific to a field in form.clean(). I am aware of clean_<fieldname>, but those are difficult to use when the validation process for a field involves other fields as well, because the necessary data might at that point not be yet available in form.cleaned_data.

• newforms
• forms
• validation
• clean

Thu 14 Nov 2013 Read More

UTC-based astimezone filter

A version of http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/2388/ which assumes UTC-based dates. This is when you store dates in UTC (as you should), and want to display them in your site's local timezone, and you notice that Django's timesince/time template tags still do not support timezones.

• timezone
• utc
• timezones
• times

Tue 25 Jun 2013 Read More

Stateful paginator, digg style

**This code will throw deprecation warnings in newer Django checkouts - see the http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/773/ for an improved version that should work with the recent trunk.** objects = MyModel.objects.all() paginator = DiggPaginator(objects, 10, body=6, padding=2, page=7) return render_to_response('template.html', {'paginator': paginator} {% if paginator.has_next %}{# pagelink paginator.next #}{% endif %} {% for page in paginator.page_range %} {% if not page %} ... {% else %}{# pagelink page #} {% endif %} {% endfor %} http://blog.elsdoerfer.name/2008/03/06/yet-another-paginator-digg-style/

• pagination
• paginator
• digg

Tue 14 Aug 2012 Read More

Copy a model instance

Create a copy of a model instance. Works in model inheritance case where ``instance.pk = None`` is not good enough, since the subclass instance refers to the parent_link's primary key during save. M2M relationships are currently not handled, i.e. they are not copied. See also Django #4027.

• model
• copy

Sun 13 May 2012 Read More

Template loader to target a specific template

This is http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/1376/ rewritten as a new class-style Loader, and slightly improved. Allows you to reference templates like this: app_label:some/template/name.html This makes it possible to insert customizations at any point in a template hierarchy. For example, you could replace a block within the base admin template: {% extends "admin:admin/base.html" %} {% block breadcrumbs %}Custom Breadcrumbs-Style{% endblock %}

• templates
• loader

Wed 20 Jul 2011 Read More

DefaultValueWidget

Can be used if a form field should not be editable, but the current value or the value that will be automatically used should still be visible to the user. __init__ takes two additional parameters: **value** is the actual value to be used when saving the form, while **display** determines what is shown to the user when rendering. If *display* is not specified, *value* itself will be used instead. If *display* is a *ModelChoiceField*, *value* is assumed to be a primary key of the model, and the widget will automatically try to retrieve and use the string representation of the corresponding item.

• newforms
• forms
• widgets
• widget

Sun 11 Jul 2010 Read More

"Approved" field with timestamp

I wanted to make the objects of a particular model approvable and store the timestamp of when that happened. In other frameworks/languages, I used to combined those in one "approved_at" field, which would be NULL if an object was currently unapproved. I tried different approaches to implement this in django, and this is the best I came up with so far. Basically, the code in __setattr__ makes sure that the field, once set, will not be updated again. Overriding setattr__() could also be a solution to determining if a field value has changed in save(), a question that seems come up from time to time in #django.

• newforms
• models
• fields
• forms
• save

Sun 11 Jul 2010 Read More