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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

Writing custom admin form classes

Admin forms can be created and used just like the standard form classes we discussed in Chapter 5, Django Forms. For admin form classes, we need to use the Django ModelForm class instead of the standard Form class found in the django.forms library, because the fields in these forms will link to model classes. Refer to the examples found in Chapter 5, Django Forms, to learn more about how to customize and change your form class behavior, for either a Form or ModelForm class. Here, we will demonstrate just initializing your admin forms and enabling all fields that exist, to allow any of the engine change and add view pages to load without the errors mentioned earlier.

Initializing an admin form

If you have not already done so, in the chapter_6 app folder, create a file called forms.py. We need to create the three different form classes used in the previous examples of this chapter and call them EngineForm, AddEngineForm, and EngineSuperUserForm...