Pinax Models

Table of Contents

• About Pinax
• Overview
• Documentation
  • Installation
  • Usage
  • Logical Deletion
• Change Log
• Backwards Incompatible Changes
• History
• Contribute
• Code of Conduct
• Connect with Pinax
• License

About Pinax

Pinax is an open-source platform built on the Django Web Framework. It is an ecosystem of reusable Django apps, themes, and starter project templates. This collection can be found at http://pinaxproject.com.

pinax-models

Overview

pinax-models provides support for logical deletes on models and in the Django admin.

This is a small and simple app that Patrick Altman wrote to get some reuse out of something he did in nearly every project and every model he created. It's too easy for good data to get deleted and it be unrecoverable. It's also too easy to fix this by overriding the model's delete() method and just flagging records as deleted and then leveraging Django's managers to override default behavior so that logically deleted items are not returned in querysets.

There are two exceptions to this rule, however, that are useful.

• In the admin it is nice to see everything with an indicator of whether or not it has been deleted, with the ability to filter down to just active records, (or deleted for that matter).
• It is a valid request when an item is fetched by its primary key value, that the object should return, even if it is marked as deleted.

Documentation

Installation

To install pinax-models:

    $ pip install pinax-models

Add pinax.models to your INSTALLED_APPS setting:

    INSTALLED_APPS = [
        # other apps
        "pinax.models",
    ]

Usage

Using the app is pretty simple:

• add pinax.models to your INSTALLED_APPS
• Inherit from pinax.models.LogicalDeleteModel for all models that you wish to share in this functionality.
• Create and/or Register admins for each of these models using pinax.models.LogicalDeleteModelAdmin

Logical Deletion

pinax.models.models.LogicalDeleteModel aims to provide a consistent interface for managing logical deletion of models also reducing the need to implement functionality at the model level.

• Logical Deletion instead of Physical Deletion
• Admin that can reveal which records are "Deleted" and allow you to reverse it.
• Provides some short cuts in the default manager

Logical deletes are handled by date stamping a date_removed column. In addition, a date_created and date_modified columns will be populated as a convenience.

Change Log

Backwards Incompatible Changes

2.0

• Renamed to pinax-models and base model renamed to LogicalDeleteModel

1.1

• Changed everything to all_with_deleted on LogicalDeleteManager
• LogicalDeleteManager moved from logicaldelete.models to logicaldelete.managers
• Removed deleted and everything querysets from logicaldelete.models.Model

History

On May 25, 2015, Patrick donated django-logicaldelete to Pinax and as part of that process, pinax-models was born and the code incorporated into that package. It remains just a Django app and can be quite independently of other Pinax apps.

Contribute

For an overview on how contributing to Pinax works read this blog post and watch the included video, or read our How to Contribute section. For concrete contribution ideas, please see our Ways to Contribute/What We Need Help With section.

In case of any questions we recommend you join our Pinax Slack team and ping us there instead of creating an issue on GitHub. Creating issues on GitHub is of course also valid but we are usually able to help you faster if you ping us in Slack.

We also highly recommend reading our blog post on Open Source and Self-Care.

Code of Conduct

In order to foster a kind, inclusive, and harassment-free community, the Pinax Project has a code of conduct. We ask you to treat everyone as a smart human programmer that shares an interest in Python, Django, and Pinax with you.

Connect with Pinax

For updates and news regarding the Pinax Project, please follow us on Twitter @pinaxproject and check out our Pinax Project blog.

License

Copyright (c) 2012-2019 James Tauber and contributors under the MIT license.