Appchance Sections

This application will allow you to implement flexible sections. It is not an out of the box mechanism and its implementation requires a bit of effort, but in return you get a solution that you can relatively easily adapt to your needs.

Including:

• the possibility of generic and dynamic content,
• convenient operation in the admin panel.

This solution was designed for the Django Rest Framework.

Not so quick start

The application appchance_sections contains only abstract models so you nead add new application

    python manage.py startapp mysections

add created app to settings.INSTALLED_APPS

    INSTALLED_APPS = [
        ...
        'mysections',
    ]

and define real models.

1. Real Section Model

In mysections.models.py file define Section model. If you need you can add additional fields, but the default fields provide basic functionality.

    from appchance_sections.models import SectionAbstract
    from django.db import models
    
    class Section(SectionAbstract):
        pass

In your Django project settings file define Section model.

SECTION_MODEL = "mysections.Section"

In mysections.admin.py use SectionAdminMixin which binds - most importantly - the modified form.

    from appchance_sections.admin import SectionAdminMixin
    from django.contrib import admin
    from mysections.models import Section

    @admin.register(Section)
    class SectionAdmin(SectionAdminMixin):
        pass

In mysections.apps.py it is very important that you do not forget to import appchance_sections.receivers in the config

    from django.apps import AppConfig
    
    class SectionsConfig(AppConfig):
        name = "mysections"
    
        def ready(self):
            from appchance_sections import receivers  # noqa F405

The last thing you have to do is add urls to urls.py

    from django.contrib import admin
    from django.urls import include, path
    
    urlpatterns = [
        path("admin/", admin.site.urls),
        path("", include("appchance_sections.urls", namespace="sections")),
    ]

2. Bind content

Then we need some content that we could present in sections. We can add two types of content:

• generic
• dynamic

To see how to define dynamic content and how to make this content possible to attach to the section.

Read more in /docs/DYNAMIC_CONTENT.md and /docs/GENERIC_CONTENT.md.

Sections were originally designed such that the section content is geted asynchronously by separate requests from the api. However, it is possible to get the content of the sections together with the list of sections.

How to? Read in /docs/IMMEDIATE_CONTENT.md