Features

• Base model allows easy recording of authorship information.

• Integration with Django’s class-based views and forms.

• Integration with Django’s admin.

Documentation

The full documentation is at https://django-authorship.readthedocs.io/

Quickstart

Install django-authorship using the installation instructions found in the project documentation.

Build a model based on authorship.models.Authorship to record authorship information on it:

from authorship.models import Authorship

class MyModel(Authorship):

    pass

This adds created_by, created_at, updated_by, and updated_at to your model.

Pass a user into calls to .save() to record which user changed the object:

example = MyModel()
example.save(user=request.user)

If you need to update model data and there’s no direct link to a website user, generate and use a site-wide ‘generic’ user.:

from authorship.models import get_website_user

example = MyModel()
example.save(user=get_website_user())

If you wish to automatically record authorship information for changes made in the Django admin, use authorship.admin.AuthorshipMixin.:

from authorship.admin import AuthorshipMixin
from django.contrib import admin

from .models import MyModel

@admin.register(MyModel)
class MyModelAdmin(AuthorshipMixin, admin.ModelAdmin):

    pass

If you wish to integrate with django.forms.ModelForm, use authorship.forms.AuthorshipMixin and authorship.views.AuthorshipMixin.

In your forms.py:

from authorship.forms import AuthorshipMixin
from django import forms

from .models import MyModel

class MyModelForm(forms.ModelForm):

    class Meta(object):
        model = MyModel

In your views.py:

from authorship.views import AuthorshipMixin
from django.views.generic import CreateView

from .forms import MyModelForm
from .models import MyModel

class MyModelCreateView(AuthorshipMixin, CreateView):

    form_class = MyModelForm

MyModelCreateView will now automatically pass request.user through to MyModelForm, which will pass it through to the model’s save() method.

Credits

See AUTHORS.rst.