Databrowse¶
Deprecated since version 1.4: This module has been deprecated.
Databrowse is a Django application that lets you browse your data.
As the Django admin dynamically creates an admin interface by introspecting your models, Databrowse dynamically creates a rich, browsable Web site by introspecting your models.
How to use Databrowse¶
Point Django at the default Databrowse templates. There are two ways to do this:
- Add
'django.contrib.databrowse'
to yourINSTALLED_APPS
setting. This will work if yourTEMPLATE_LOADERS
setting includes theapp_directories
template loader (which is the case by default). See the template loader docs for more. - Otherwise, determine the full filesystem path to the
django/contrib/databrowse/templates
directory, and add that directory to yourTEMPLATE_DIRS
setting.
- Add
Register a number of models with the Databrowse site:
from django.contrib import databrowse from myapp.models import SomeModel, SomeOtherModel, YetAnotherModel databrowse.site.register(SomeModel) databrowse.site.register(SomeOtherModel, YetAnotherModel)
Note that you should register the model classes, not instances.
Since Django 1.4, it is possible to register several models in the same call to
databrowse.site.register()
.It doesn’t matter where you put this, as long as it gets executed at some point. A good place for it is in your URLconf file (
urls.py
).Change your URLconf to import the
databrowse
module:from django.contrib import databrowse
...and add the following line to your URLconf:
(r'^databrowse/(.*)', databrowse.site.root),
The prefix doesn’t matter – you can use
databrowse/
ordb/
or whatever you’d like.Run the Django server and visit
/databrowse/
in your browser.
Requiring user login¶
You can restrict access to logged-in users with only a few extra lines of code. Simply add the following import to your URLconf:
from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
Then modify the URLconf so that the
databrowse.site.root()
view is decorated with
django.contrib.auth.decorators.login_required()
:
(r'^databrowse/(.*)', login_required(databrowse.site.root)),
If you haven’t already added support for user logins to your URLconf, as described in the user authentication docs, then you will need to do so now with the following mapping:
(r'^accounts/login/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.login'),
The final step is to create the login form required by
django.contrib.auth.views.login()
. The
user authentication docs provide full details and a
sample template that can be used for this purpose.