django-admin-json-view 0.1.0

A Django admin mixin to view any model record as formatted JSON

django-admin-json-view

A simple Django admin mixin that adds a "View as JSON" button to any model's change form. Click it to open a modal with the record's data as formatted JSON — ready to copy.

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Installation

pip install django-admin-json-view

Add to INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    "admin_json_view",
]

Include the URLs in your urls.py:

from django.urls import path, include

urlpatterns = [
    path("admin/", admin.site.urls),
    path("admin-json-view/", include("admin_json_view.urls")),
]

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Usage

Add JsonViewMixin to any ModelAdmin:

from admin_json_view.mixins import JsonViewMixin
from django.contrib import admin
from .models import Student

@admin.register(Student)
class StudentAdmin(JsonViewMixin, admin.ModelAdmin):
    pass

That's it. A "{ } View as JSON" button will appear in the top-right of the change form.

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Configuration

Option	Default	Description
json_depth	0	How deep to serialize relations. 0 = direct fields only, 1 = one level of related objects
json_exclude_fields	[]	List of field names to exclude from the output

@admin.register(Student)
class StudentAdmin(JsonViewMixin, admin.ModelAdmin):
    json_depth = 1
    json_exclude_fields = ["password", "token"]

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License

MIT