A django-project-version documentation

django-project-version is a Django reusable app to show your project version

Contents

• Installation
• Configuration
• Settings
• Usage
• Advanced features
• Contributing
• Licensing
• Contacts

Installation

• Obtain your copy of source code from the git repository: $ git clone https://github.com/DCOD-OpenSource/django-project-version.git. Or download the latest release from https://github.com/DCOD-OpenSource/django-project-version/tags/.
• Run $ python ./setup.py install from the repository source tree or unpacked archive. Or use pip: $ pip install django-project-version.

Configuration

• Add "djversion" to settings.INSTALLED_APPS.

# settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS += [
    "djversion",
]

Settings

DJVERSION_VERSION

Contains project version. Defaults to None.

DJVERSION_UPDATED

Contains project update date or datetime. Defaults to None.

DJVERSION_FORMAT_STRING

Contains version and updated format string. Defaults to "{version} ({updated})".

DJVERSION_GIT_REPO_PATH

Contains path to git repository from where version info can get. Defaults to None.

DJVERSION_GIT_USE_TAG

Indicate usage of git repository current tag as project version. Defaults to False.

DJVERSION_GIT_USE_COMMIT

Indicate usage of git repository last commit hash as project version. Defaults to False.

Usage

If you want always have "VERSION" variable in templates context, just add "djversion.context_processors.version" to settings.TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS

# settings.py

TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS += [
    "djversion.context_processors.version",
]

Or you can use project_version templatetag which can be loaded from djversion_tags.

{# footer.html #}

{% load djversion_tags %}

{% project_version as VERSION %}
{{ VERSION }}

Also simple management command print-version which prints project version to stdout is available. Just run:

django-admin print-version

or

./manage.py print-version

Advanced features

If you want to have REST-style view with your project version:

• Install django-project-version with additional dependencies: $ pip install django-project-version[rest].
• Extend you settings.INSTALLED_APPS by adding "rest_framework".

# settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS += [
    "rest_framework",
]

• Add "djversion" to your URLs definitions:

# urls.py

from django.urls import re_path, include


urlpatterns += [
    re_path(r"^version/", include("djversion.urls")),
]

Or to use information from the project git repository as project version:

• Install django-project-version with additional dependencies: $ pip install django-project-version[git].
• Configure git related settings.

Contributing

• Fork it
• Install GNU Make
• Install and configure pyenv and pyenv-virtualenv plugin
• Install and configure direnv
• Create environment config from example

cp .env.example .env

• Install development dependencies:

make install

• Create your fix/feature branch:

git checkout -b my-new-fix-or-feature

• Check code style and moreover:

make check

• Run tests:

make test

• Push to the branch:

git push origin my-new-fix-or-feature

• Create a new Pull Request

Licensing

django-project-version uses the MIT license. Please check the MIT-LICENSE file for more details.

Contacts

Project Website: https://github.com/DCOD-OpenSource/django-project-version/

Author: DCOD <contact@d-cod.com>

For contributors list see CONTRIBUTORS file.