Extandable field and related tools that enable Django apps to extend your reusable app.
This app is fork of the original Django appdata. Fork was created because of original application does not work correctly with the latest version of Django and reactions on pull requests are very slow. However I recommend use the original application if you can.
When working with reusable django apps we often found that we needed to add something extra to the model or form the app provided. Some apps try to solve this by providing a flexible model definition and a pluggable form (see django.contrib.comments for an exmple of this approach) but even then it leads to some duplication of efforts.
django-appdata app tries, through AppDataField, MultiForm and AppDataModelAdmin, to provide a standardised approach to extending existing apps.
When you have an extendable django app using the AppDataField:
from django.db import models
from app_data import AppDataField
class BlogPost(models.Model):
text = models.TextField()
app_data = AppDataField()
your code can register a namespace on any (or all) AppDataField and store it's own data there by registering a container (subclass of AppDataContainer). To define the data you use django's form framework:
from django.forms.models import ModelMultipleChoiceField
from app_data import app_registry, AppDataForm, AppDataContainer
from .models import Tag
class TaggingAppDataForm(AppDataForm):
public_tags = ModelMultipleChoiceField(Tag.objects.all())
admin_tags = ModelMultipleChoiceField(Tag.objects.all())
class TaggingAppDataContainer(AppDataContainer):
form_class = TaggingAppDataForm
def tag_string(self):
print ', '.join(t.name for t in self.public_tags)
app_registry.register('tagging', TaggingAppDataContainer)
This should give you access to 'tagging' namespace in any defined AppDataField:
from blog_app.models import BlogPost bp = BlogPost() assert bp.app_data.tagging.tag_string() == ""
Note that if you don't need to add custom methods to your container you can just use a factory to create the subclass:
app_registry.register('tagging', AppDataContainer.from_form(TaggingAppDataForm))
Additionaly you can restrict the registration to a given model:
from blog_app.models import BlogPost
app_registry.register('tagging', TaggingAppDataContainer, BlogPost)
django-appdata supplies a MultiForm class - a wrapper around django's ModelForm with optional added sub-forms that corresponds to namespaces registered in the model's AppDataField, typically the extendable app would create and use a MultiForm instead of a regular ModelForm:
from app_data.forms import multiform_factory from .models import BlogPost BlogPostMultiForm = multiform_factory(BlogPost)
And when using that app any project can add additional sub-forms to that MultiForm:
from blog_app.forms import BlogPostMultiForm
BlogPostMultiForm.add_form('tagging', {'fields': ['public_tags']})
This way when the reusable app's code can remain unchanged and we can inject additional form logic to its processing.
Any arguments and keyword arguments are passed without change to the ModelForm class the MultiForm is wrapping so even if you have custom args for your ModelForm everything will still work:
from django.forms.models import BaseModelForm
class ModelFormWithUser(ModelForm):
def __init__(self, user, *args, **kwargs):
self.user = user
super(ModelFormWithUser, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
BlogPostMultiForm = multiform_factory(BlogPost, form=ModelFormWithUser)
And of course you are not limited to the use of a factory function:
from app_data import MultiForm
class MyMultiForm(MultiForm):
ModelForm = BlogPostModelForm
If you wish to add your own code to the admin interface, just use AppDataModelAdmin:
from django.contrib import admin
from app_data.admin import AppDataModelAdmin
from blog_app.models import BlogPost
class BlogPostAdmin(AppDataModelAdmin):
# due to bug in django's admin validation we need to use
# declared_fieldsets instead of just fieldsets
declared_fieldsets = [
(None, {'fields': ['text', ]}),
('Tagging', {'fields': [('tagging.public_tags', 'tagging.admin_tags')]})
]
admin.site.register(BlogPost, BlogPostAdmin)
As with django's admin and forms you can supply your own MultiForm class by using the multiform attribute of AppDataModelAdmin.
django-appdata uses a TextField to store the data on the model using JSON and django's forms framework for (de)serialization and validation of the data.
When accessing the containers in the field we will try to locate the appropriate container in the registry. If none is found, plain data will be returned if present (dict). To assure everything working properly we recommend putting some sort of init code in place for your project that will make sure all the registration is done before any actual code is run. We are using a module called register in our apps and then a piece of code similar to admin's autodiscover to iterate through installed apps and load this module.
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