Web Development with Django Cookbook- Second Edition

Web Development with Django Cookbook- Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Aidas Bendoraitis

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Web Development with Django Cookbook- Second Edition - Second Edition

By: Aidas Bendoraitis

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Overview of this book

Django is a web framework that was designed to strike a balance between rapid web development and high performance. It has the capacity to handle applications with high levels of user traffic and interaction, and can integrate with massive databases on the backend, constantly collecting and processing data in real time. Through this book, you'll discover that collecting data from different sources and providing it to others in different formats isn't as difficult as you thought. It follows a task-based approach to guide you through all the web development processes using the Django framework. We’ll start by setting up the virtual environment for a Django project and configuring it. Then you’ll learn to write reusable pieces of code for your models and find out how to manage database schema changes using South migrations. After that, we’ll take you through working with forms and views to enter and list data. With practical examples on using templates and JavaScript together, you will discover how to create the best user experience. In the final chapters, you'll be introduced to some programming and debugging tricks and finally, you will be shown how to test and deploy the project to a remote dedicated server. By the end of this book, you will have a good understanding of the new features added to Django 1.8 and be an expert at web development processes.

Web Development with Django Cookbook Second Edition

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

Getting Started with Django 1.8

Introduction

Working with a virtual environment

Creating a project file structure

Handling project dependencies with pip

Making your code compatible with both Python 2.7 and Python 3

Including external dependencies in your project

Configuring settings for development, testing, staging, and production environments

Defining relative paths in the settings

Creating and including local settings

Setting up STATIC_URL dynamically for Subversion users

Setting up STATIC_URL dynamically for Git users

Setting UTF-8 as the default encoding for MySQL configuration

Setting the Subversion ignore property

Creating the Git ignore file

Deleting Python-compiled files

Respecting the import order in Python files

Creating app configuration

Defining overwritable app settings

Database Structure

Introduction

Using model mixins

Creating a model mixin with URL-related methods

Creating a model mixin to handle creation and modification dates

Creating a model mixin to take care of meta tags

Creating a model mixin to handle generic relations

Handling multilingual fields

Using migrations

Switching from South migrations to Django migrations

Changing a foreign key to the many-to-many field

Forms and Views

Introduction

Passing HttpRequest to the form

Utilizing the save method of the form

Uploading images

Creating a form layout with django-crispy-forms

Downloading authorized files

Filtering object lists

Managing paginated lists

Composing class-based views

Generating PDF documents

Implementing a multilingual search with Haystack

Templates and JavaScript

Introduction

Arranging the base.html template

Including JavaScript settings

Using HTML5 data attributes

Opening object details in a modal dialog

Implementing a continuous scroll

Implementing the Like widget

Uploading images by Ajax

Custom Template Filters and Tags

Introduction

Following conventions for your own template filters and tags

Creating a template filter to show how many days have passed since a post was published

Creating a template filter to extract the first media object

Creating a template filter to humanize URLs

Creating a template tag to include a template if it exists

Creating a template tag to load a QuerySet in a template

Creating a template tag to parse content as a template

Creating a template tag to modify request query parameters

Model Administration

Introduction

Customizing columns on the change list page

Creating admin actions

Developing change list filters

Customizing default admin settings

Inserting a map into a change form

Django CMS

Introduction

Creating templates for Django CMS

Structuring the page menu

Converting an app to a CMS app

Attaching your own navigation

Writing your own CMS plugin

Adding new fields to the CMS page

Hierarchical Structures

Introduction

Creating hierarchical categories

Creating a category administration interface with django-mptt-admin

Creating a category administration interface with django-mptt-tree-editor

Rendering categories in a template

Using a single selection field to choose a category in forms

Using a checkbox list to choose multiple categories in forms

Data Import and Export

Introduction

Importing data from a local CSV file

Importing data from a local Excel file

Importing data from an external JSON file

Importing data from an external XML file

Creating filterable RSS feeds

Using Tastypie to create API

Using Django REST framework to create API

Bells and Whistles

Introduction

Using the Django shell

Using database query expressions

Monkey-patching the slugify() function for better internationalization support

Toggling the Debug Toolbar

Using ThreadLocalMiddleware

Caching the method return value

Using Memcached to cache Django views

Using signals to notify administrators about new entries

Checking for missing settings

Testing and Deployment

Introduction

Testing pages with Selenium

Testing views with mock

Testing API created using Django REST framework

Releasing a reusable Django app

Getting detailed error reporting via e-mail

Deploying on Apache with mod_wsgi

Setting up cron jobs for regular tasks

Creating and using the Fabric deployment script

Index

Customer Reviews

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Setting the Subversion ignore property

If you are using Subversion for version control, you will need to keep most of the projects in the repository; however, some files and directories should only stay locally and not be tracked.

Getting ready

Make sure that your Django project is under the Subversion version control.

How to do it…

Open your command-line tool and set your default editor as nano, vi, vim or any other that you prefer, as follows:

$ export EDITOR=nano

Tip

If you don't have a preference, I would recommend using nano, which is very intuitive and a simple text editor for the terminal.

Then, go to your project directory and type the following command:

$ svn propedit svn:ignore myproject

This will open a temporary file in the editor, where you need to put the following file and directory patterns for Subversion to ignore:

# Project files and directories
local_settings.py
static
media
tmp

# Byte-compiled / optimized / DLL files
__pycache__
*.py[cod]
*$py.class

# C extensions
*.so

# PyInstaller
*.manifest
*.spec

# Installer logs
pip-log.txt
pip-delete-this-directory.txt

# Unit test / coverage reports
htmlcov
.tox
.coverage
.coverage.*
.cache
nosetests.xml
coverage.xml
*.cover

# Translations
*.pot

# Django stuff:
*.log

# PyBuilder
target

Save the file and exit the editor. For every other Python package in your project, you will need to ignore several files and directories too. Just go to a directory and type the following command:

$ svn propedit svn:ignore .

Then, put this in the temporary file, save it, and close the editor, as follows:

# Byte-compiled / optimized / DLL files
__pycache__
*.py[cod]
*$py.class

# C extensions
*.so

# PyInstaller
*.manifest
*.spec

# Installer logs
pip-log.txt
pip-delete-this-directory.txt

# Unit test / coverage reports
htmlcov
.tox
.coverage
.coverage.*
.cache
nosetests.xml
coverage.xml
*.cover

# Translations
*.pot

# Django stuff:
*.log

# PyBuilder
target

How it works…

In Subversion, you need to define the ignore properties for each directory of your project. Mainly, we don't want to track the Python-compiled files, for instance, *.pyc. We also want to ignore local_settings.py that is specific for each environment, static that replicates collected static files from different apps, media that contains uploaded files and changes together with the database, and tmp that is temporarily used for file uploads.

Tip

If you keep all your settings in a conf Python package as described in the Configuring settings for development, testing, staging, and production environments recipe, add settings.py to the ignored files too.

Web Development with Django Cookbook- Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Aidas Bendoraitis

Web Development with Django Cookbook- Second Edition - Second Edition

By: Aidas Bendoraitis

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