Model Tracker

Track model object changes over time so that you know who done what.

Installation

• Install the package

pip install django-model-tracker

• Add Application to your project's INSTALLED_APPs

INSTALLED_APPS = (
     '....',
    'ModelTracker',
    )

• Add the following line to your urls.py

import ModelTracker
urlpatterns = patterns('',
...
url(r'^track/', include('ModelTracker.urls')),
...
)

• Run Migrations

   python manage.py migrate ModelTracker 

• Add the following line to your models.py file

from ModelTracker import Tracker

• Convert each Model you want to track to inhert from Tracker.ModelTracker instead of models.Model

Old Code

   class Employee(models.Model):
     name=models.CharField(max_length=255)
     address=models.CharField(max_length=255)
     age=models.IntegerField()

New Code

 class Employee(Tracker.ModelTracker):
   name=models.CharField(max_length=255)
   address=models.CharField(max_length=255)
   age=models.IntegerField()

• For each save() call, add the user the username
  • Old Code

   emp=Employee()
   emp.save()

 * New Code

       emp=Employee()
       emp.save(request.user.username)

• Starting from version of 0.5, you can pass a event_name parameter to mark change as an event

  • New Code

       emp=Employee()
       emp.save(request.user.username,event_name="Created the user")

Using The Middleware

You can add ModelTracker.middleware.ModelTrackerMiddleware to your Middleware classes to get the username automatically from the request.

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
     '....',
    'ModelTracker.middleware.ModelTrackerMiddleware',
    )

Note: If you pass username as None then the change won't be saved.