django-envi

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Introduction

Lightweight set of middleware classes that inject visual indicators for each type of environment that a project is deployed to. Inspired by this article.

Quickstart

1. Install the package: pip install django-envi.
2. Add the 'envi' app to your INSTALLED_APPS.
3. Install the desired middleware class to MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES:
   • envi.middleware.EnviFooterMiddleware injects a sticky footer to all pages that displays the current environment.
4. In each environment's settings file, add the ENVI_ENVIRONMENT_KEY setting, with the corresponding environment key string. See below.

Built-in environments

There are a number of built-in environment definitions:

• 'local': A striped grey banner. Appears site-wide (default).
• 'dev': A striped blue banner. Appears site-wide.
• 'staging': A striped yellow banner. Appears site-wide.
• 'production': A striped red banner. Only appears in /admin.

Configuration

The following settings are supported in your settings.py:

• ENVI_ENVIRONMENT_KEY: A string representing the key to use to search the ENVI_ENVIRONMENTS settings dictionary. Defaults to 'local'.
• ENVI_ENVIRONMENTS: A dictionary containing key-value pairs consisting of environment keys (as strings) mapped to dictionaries representing an environment definition. By default, there are 4 built-in environments available for selection.
• ENVI_ENVIRONMENT: The current environment. This can either be defined explicitly (see Creating environments), otherwise it will be set to the corresponding dictionary by looking up the ENVI_ENVIRONMENT_KEY within the ENVI_ENVIRONMENTS dictionary.

Creating environments

Environments can be created using the following dictionary structure:

CUSTOM_ENV = {
    # Required for all subclasses of EnviBaseMiddleware.
    "SHOW_IN_ADMIN": True,
    "SHOW_IN_SITE": True,

    # Only required for subclasses of EnviBaseTemplateMiddleware.
    "CONTEXT": {
        # The contents of this dictionary will be passed to the template
        # being rendered. You can add anything you want here.
        "CONTENT": "ENVIRONMENT: STAGING",
        "COLOR_A": "#ffba1e",
        "COLOR_B": "#dba11a",
    },
}

Then, this environment definition can be either:

• Added to the ENVI_ENVIRONMENTS dictionary, and activated by setting the ENVI_ENVIRONMENT_KEY to the respective key.

  ENVI_ENVIRONMENTS = {
      "custom_key_1": CUSTOM_ENV,
      "custom_key_2": OTHER_CUSTOM_ENV,
  }
  
  ENVI_ENVIRONMENT_KEY = "custom_key_1"

• Used to set the ENVI_ENVIRONMENT value directly.

  ENVI_ENVIRONMENT = CUSTOM_ENV

Advanced usage

The implementation of django-envi makes it easy to customize.

Extending via templates

TODO: How to.

Extending via subclassing

TODO: How to.

Changelog

Version	Description
0.2.1	Bugfix to prevent adding the banner to AJAX requests. Thanks to @marksweb for the PR. Also adds backwards compatability for Django versions < 1.10.
0.2	Repackaged without unnecessary docs/images directory. All documentation can be found in README.rst.
0.1.2	Fixes reference to nonexistent template. Manifest issue.
0.1.1	Renamed to django-envi.
0.1	Initial version.

License

Shared under the MIT License.