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Server-driven Hyperview UI for Django, with every screen owned by your project. Resolve, render, validate, cache, and publish mobile UI from filesystem or database templates without bundling application screens into the package.

  • Consumer-owned screens — keep XML and HXML inside the Django project that defines the mobile application.
  • Ordered template sources — resolve from configured filesystem directories, the optional database app, or custom source backends with explicit precedence.
  • Live database publication — edit validated templates through Django admin and expose committed changes on the next request.
  • Cache consistency — opt into any Django cache backend, including Redis, with source-aware keys and generation-based invalidation.
  • Django-native HTTP integration — use lazy template responses, class-based views, request metadata, content negotiation, and standard CSRF protection.
  • Fail-closed validation — enforce canonical names, UTF-8, XML safety, consumer-provided single-file XSD 1.0 rules, and configurable resource limits.

dj-hyperview does not ship application screens, runtime XML or HXML files, mobile components, Redis, or a required database app. Those choices remain under the consumer project's control.

The upstream Hyperview schema uses composition and XSD 1.1 features. Flatten and downgrade it before configuring it as the package validation schema.

Requirements

  • Python: 3.12, 3.13, or 3.14
  • Django: 5.2 or 6.1
  • lxml: 6.1 or newer, below 7
  • Hyperview contract: 0.110.0

Installation

# uv (recommended)
uv add dj-hyperview
# pip
pip install dj-hyperview

Register the base Django application:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # Your project applications.
    "dj_hyperview",
]

The base app performs no database, cache, or network access during startup. Database-backed templates and admin integration are optional.

Quick start

Create hyperview/screens/home.xml inside the consumer project:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<doc xmlns="https://hyperview.org/hyperview">
  <screen id="home">
    <body>
      <view>
        <text>Hello from Django</text>
      </view>
    </body>
  </screen>
</doc>

Configure the filesystem source in settings.py:

from pathlib import Path

BASE_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent

HYPERVIEW = {
    "TEMPLATE_DIRS": [BASE_DIR / "hyperview"],
    "SOURCES": [
        {"BACKEND": "dj_hyperview.sources.FileSystemSource"},
    ],
}

Expose the screen through Django's URL configuration:

from django.urls import path

from dj_hyperview import HyperviewTemplateView

urlpatterns = [
    path(
        "hyperview/home/",
        HyperviewTemplateView.as_view(template_name="screens/home.xml"),
        name="hyperview-home",
    ),
]

A request to /hyperview/home/ returns the rendered document as application/vnd.hyperview+xml.

Configuration

All package settings live under the HYPERVIEW dictionary. Sources are queried in declaration order, and the first match wins:

HYPERVIEW = {
    "TEMPLATE_DIRS": [BASE_DIR / "hyperview"],
    "SOURCES": [
        {"BACKEND": "dj_hyperview.contrib.database.sources.DatabaseSource"},
        {"BACKEND": "dj_hyperview.sources.FileSystemSource"},
    ],
}

To publish templates through the database and Django admin, add the optional app and run migrations:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # Django applications used by your project.
    "django.contrib.admin",
    "dj_hyperview",
    "dj_hyperview.contrib.database",
]
python manage.py migrate

Caching remains disabled unless a non-empty HYPERVIEW["CACHE"] configuration is supplied. See the configuration and cache guides before enabling a shared backend.

Documentation

📚 Full documentation — including Installation, Quick Start, Configuration, Filesystem sources, Database and admin, Cache consistency, Security, and the public Python API.

The package is published at PyPI.

Development

See the contributing guide for the quality contract, supported test matrix, and release workflow.

uv sync --all-groups
uv run pytest
uv run ruff check .
uv run ruff format --check .

License

dj-hyperview is distributed under the MIT License.

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