apis-datamodel

A reusable Django app that introspects your APIS Core data model and displays a matrix of relations between entity types.

Features

• Automatically discovers all Relation subclasses defined in your project
• Renders a subject × object matrix where each cell shows the name and reverse_name of the relation
• Overridable templates via Django's standard app template loading order
• Django system checks to catch missing dependencies and misconfigured INSTALLED_APPS / URL includes early

Requirements

• Python ≥ 3.13
• Django (any version supported by apis-core-rdf)
• apis-core-rdf >= 0.62.0

Installation

pip install apis-datamodel

Setup

1. Add to INSTALLED_APPS

apis_datamodel must appear after your project app so project-level template overrides are discovered first:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    "apis_core.apis_metainfo",
    "apis_core.relations",
    "apis_core.apis_entities",
    "your_project",   # must come before apis_datamodel
    "apis_datamodel",
]

2. Include the URLs

# urls.py
from django.urls import include, path

urlpatterns = [
    ...
    path("datamodel/", include("apis_datamodel.urls")),
]

The matrix view is then available at /datamodel/.

Template customisation

The package ships with two templates:

To customise the layout, place a file at the same path inside your own app's templates/ directory. Because your app is listed before apis_datamodel in INSTALLED_APPS, Django will pick yours up first.

The package template for datamodel.html extends apis_datamodel/base.html by default, but you can point it at your own base template by passing a parent_template context variable:

# e.g. in a subclassed view
def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
    ctx = super().get_context_data(**kwargs)
    ctx["parent_template"] = "base.html"
    return ctx

System checks

The app registers three Django system checks that run with manage.py check:

License

MIT