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Becoming an Enterprise Django Developer

By : Michael Dinder
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Becoming an Enterprise Django Developer

By: Michael Dinder

Overview of this book

Django is a powerful framework but choosing the right add-ons that match the scale and scope of your enterprise projects can be tricky. This book will help you explore the multifarious options available for enterprise Django development. Countless organizations are already using Django and more migrating to it, unleashing the power of Python with many different packages and dependencies, including AI technologies. This practical guide will help you understand practices, blueprints, and design decisions to put Django to work the way you want it to. You’ll learn various ways in which data can be rendered onto a page and discover the power of Django for large-scale production applications. Starting with the basics of getting an enterprise project up and running, you'll get to grips with maintaining the project throughout its lifecycle while learning what the Django application lifecycle is. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to build and deploy a Django project to the web and implement various components into the site.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Starting a Project
5
Part 2 – Django Components
10
Part 3 – Advanced Django Components

Adding admin class methods

Admin class methods allow us to add or change the default behavior of a ModelAdmin or UserAdmin class. Any of the options available in an admin class can have its value dynamically calculated by writing a method. Those methods use the get_ naming convention and then the name of the option, as in get_ordering() or get_form(). Django also provides many built-in methods that add extra actions when something happens, such as when an object is saved or deleted using the save_model() or delete_model() methods.

Next, we will explore just some of these methods and also provide a demonstration using a dynamic value, specifically for the form option. That will prepare us to use a separate form class later in this chapter.

For a complete breakdown of how to use Django admin class methods, visit the official Django documentation here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/ref/contrib/admin/#modeladmin-methods.

Method – get_form()

The get_form() method...