django-query-to-table (DjangoQtt) is an easy to use django package to generate html table from sql query.

You can read more about this package here : django query to table package

The package contains one function named "generateFromSql" accepting 12 arguments :

• cursor : DB cursor
• title : The title of the report that will be shown on top of table
• sqltext : The sql select query to retrieve data
• footerCols : A list of columns name that you want to have Sum of values on footer . Example : ['amount','price']
• htmlClass : Html CSS classes for the table
• direction (default = "ltr") : Indicates direction of the report page. "ltr"- Left to Right , "rtl" - Right to Left
• font (default = "Tahoma") : Font of title and table contents
• totalText (default = "Total") : Title of footer row that will be the put below the first column.
• rowIndex (default = False) : Indicates whether the table should have index column or not.
• headerRowColor (default = '#eeeeee') : The header (title) row background color.
• evenRowColor (default = '#ffffff') : The even rows background color.
• oddRowColor (default = '#ffffff') : The odd rows background color.

Installation

Run following command to install DjangoQtt :

pip install django-query-to-table

Usage :

from django.db import connection
from django_query_to_table import DjangoQtt
from django.http import HttpResponse

# view function in Django project
def listOfPersons(request):
  cursor = connection.cursor()
  reportTitle = "Employee List"
  sqlQuery = "SELECT FirstName as 'First Name', LastName as 'Last Name', phone as 'Phone Number', salary as 'Salary' FROM persons"
  columnsToBeSummarized = ['Salary']
  fontName = "Arial"
  cssClasses = "reportTable container"
  headerRowBackgroundColor = '#ffeeee'
  evenRowsBackgroundColor = '#ffeeff'
  oddRowsBackgroundColor = '#ffffff'
  rowIndexVisibility = True
  table = DjangoQtt.generateFromSql(cursor, reportTitle, sqlQuery, columnsToBeSummarized, cssClasses,
                                  "ltr", fontName, "Total Salary", rowIndexVisibility,
                                  headerRowBackgroundColor, evenRowsBackgroundColor, oddRowsBackgroundColor
                                  )
  
  # here the table is a string variable contianing the html table showing the query result
  return HttpResponse(table)