- Info
An introspective interface for Django and MongoDB.
- Version
0.2.11
- Author
Daniel Greenfeld (http://github.com/pydanny)
Extracted from http://consumernotebook.com, django-mongonaut is an introspective interface for working with MongoDB via mongoengine. Rather then attempt to staple this functionality into Django's Admin interface, django-mongonaut takes the approach of rolling a new framework from scratch.
By writing it from scratch I get to avoid trying to staple ORM functionality on top of MongoDB, a NoSQL key/value binary-tree store.
- Automatic introspection of mongoengine documents.
- Ability to constrain who sees what and can do what.
- Full control to add, edit, and delete documents
- More awesome stuff! See http://django-mongonaut.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html#features
Made as easy as possible, setup is actually easier than django.contrib.admin. Furthermore, the only dependencies are mongoengine and pymongo. Eventually django-mongonaut will be able to support installations without mongoengine.
Get MongoDB:
Download the right version per http://www.mongodb.org/downloadsGet mongoengine (and pymongo):
pip install mongoengine==0.5.2
Get the code:
pip install django-mongonaut==0.2.11Install the dependency in your settings.py:
INSTALLED_APPS = (
...
'mongonaut',
...
)You will need the following also set up:
- django.contrib.sessions
- django.contrib.messages
Note
No need for autodiscovery() with django-mongonaut!
django-mongonaut will let you duplicate much of what django.contrib.admin gives you, but in a way more suited for MongoDB. Still being implemented, but already works better than any other MongoDB solution for Django. A simple example:
# myapp/mongoadmin.py
# Import the MongoAdmin base class
from mongonaut.sites import MongoAdmin
# Import your custom models
from blog.models import Post
# Instantiate the MongoAdmin class
# Then attach the mongoadmin to your model
Post.mongoadmin = MongoAdmin()All the documentation for this project is hosted at http://django-mongonaut.rtfd.org.
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- mongoengine 0.5.2
- pymongo 2.1.1 (comes with mongoengine)
- sphinx (optional - for documentation generation)