DRF-HISTORY

drf-history is a simple django rest framework app to track actions performed in a django app and to also gets the current request. The actions being tracked are POST, DELETE, PUT and PATCH

Data being captured is

Data	Description
user	The current loggedin user making the request
request data(body)	Data being sent (POST, PATCH and PUT)
response data	response data after the request is complete
table_name	name of the model the request is affecting
instance_id	The id of the created, updated or deleted model instance
method	The request method i.e POST, DELETE, PUT or PATCH
created_at	Date time object for when the request is being carried out
path	path the request is coming from

Quick start

1. Add track_actions to your INSTALLED_APPS setting

    INSTALLED_APPS = [
        ...,
        'track_actions',
    ]
   

2. Add track_actions.requestMiddleware.RequestMiddleware in settings under middlewares

    MIDDLEWARE = [
        ... ,
        'track_actions.requestMiddleware.RequestMiddleware',
    ]
   

3. Run python manage.py migrate track_actions to create the History model.

    `python manage.py migrate track_actions`
   

After this every POST, UPDATE and DELETE action will be recorded in your database under the history model.

To prevent sensitive fields from being saved

For example passwords.

You will have to create a yaml file called drf_history.yaml on the root of your django project. In this file add the following.

fields_to_exclude: ["password","another key here"]

You can then add all sensitve fields in the list separated by commas. These fields will be removed from the saved request data. This will apply to all tables.

This is only for data sent in the request.

To get the current request

To get the current request in progress anywhere in the application.

1. Import the relevant class.

    from track_actions.requestMiddleware import RequestMiddleware
   

2 Get the current request object.

    current_request = RequestMiddleware.get_request_data()[1]

To access the get history endpoint

1. In your project's url file

    `import track_actions` 
   

2. Register the url in the urlpattern

    `path('track_actions/', include('track_actions.urls'))`
   

3. visit the url in the browser or on postman

    `http://127.0.0.1:8000/track_actions/history/`
   

you should be able to see all the recorded history if you have admin priveleges and you are authenticated.

Alternatively

You can create your own endpoint to view all history from the History model by importing it in your views or serializers.

    `from track_actions.models import History`

NOTE

This package will only work if you have a user in a request and a user model in your database.