django-config-models 2.7.0

Configuration models for Django allowing config management with auditing.

Purpose

This app allows other apps to easily define a configuration model that can be hooked into the admin site to allow configuration management with auditing.

Getting Started

Add config_models to your INSTALLED_APPS list.

Usage

Create a subclass of ConfigurationModel, with fields for each value that needs to be configured:

class MyConfiguration(ConfigurationModel):
    frobble_timeout = IntField(default=10)
    frazzle_target = TextField(defalut="debug")

This is a normal django model, so it must be synced and migrated as usual.

The default values for the fields in the ConfigurationModel will be used if no configuration has yet been created.

Register that class with the Admin site, using the ConfigurationAdminModel:

from django.contrib import admin

from config_models.admin import ConfigurationModelAdmin

admin.site.register(MyConfiguration, ConfigurationModelAdmin)

Use the configuration in your code:

def my_view(self, request):
    config = MyConfiguration.current()
    fire_the_missiles(config.frazzle_target, timeout=config.frobble_timeout)

Use the admin site to add new configuration entries. The most recently created entry is considered to be current.

Configuration

The current ConfigurationModel will be cached in the configuration django cache, or in the default cache if configuration doesn’t exist. The configuration and default caches are specified in the django CACHES setting. The caching can be per-process, per-machine, per-cluster, or some other strategy, depending on the cache configuration.

You can specify the cache timeout in each ConfigurationModel by setting the cache_timeout property.

You can change the name of the cache key used by the ConfigurationModel by overriding the cache_key_name function.

Extension

ConfigurationModels are just django models, so they can be extended with new fields and migrated as usual. Newly added fields must have default values and should be nullable, so that rollbacks to old versions of configuration work correctly.

Documentation

The full documentation is at https://django-config-models.readthedocs.org.

License

The code in this repository is licensed under the AGPL 3.0 unless otherwise noted.

Please see LICENSE.txt for details.

Getting Help

If you’re having trouble, we have discussion forums at discuss.openedx.org where you can connect with others in the community.

Our real-time conversations are on Slack. You can request a Slack invitation, then join our community Slack workspace.

For anything non-trivial, the best path is to open an issue in this repository with as many details about the issue you are facing as you can provide.

For more information about these options, see the Getting Help page.

How To Contribute

Contributions are very welcome.

Please read How To Contribute for details.

This project is currently accepting all types of contributions, bug fixes, security fixes, maintenance work, or new features. However, please make sure to have a discussion about your new feature idea with the maintainers prior to beginning development to maximize the chances of your change being accepted. You can start a conversation by creating a new issue on this repo summarizing your idea.

Open edX Code of Conduct

All community members are expected to follow the Open edX Code of Conduct.

People

The assigned maintainers for this component and other project details may be found in Backstage. Backstage pulls this data from the catalog-info.yaml file in this repo.

Reporting Security Issues

Please do not report security issues in public. Please email [e-mail].

Change Log

[2.6.0] - 2024-03-30

• Adding python3.11 and 3.12 support.

[2.5.1] - 2023-09-22

• Fixed issues with Django 4.2

[2.5.0] - 2023-08-07

• Fixed ConfigurationModel.current: it will make sure that it does not return None for current configuration.

[2.4.0] - 2023-07-19

• Added support for Django42 in CI

• Switch from edx-sphinx-theme to sphinx-book-theme since the former is deprecated

[2.3.0] - 2022-01-19

• Added Support for Django40 in CI

• Dropped Support for Django22, 30, 31

[2.2.2] - 2021-20-12

• Updated dependencies after removing unnecessary constraint on edx-django-utils, so the constraint will no longer be advertised.

[2.2.1] - 2021-20-12

• Replaced deprecated ‘django.utils.translation.ugettext’ with ‘django.utils.translation.gettext’

[2.2.0] - 2021-07-14

• Added support for django3.2

[2.1.2] - 2021-06-24

• Move out django pin from base.in. Now it is coming from global constraint. Ran make upgrade.

[2.1.1] - 2021-01-28

• Fix deprecated reference of util.memcache.safe_key

[2.1.0] - 2021-01-12

• Dropped Python 3.5 Support

[2.0.2] - 2020-05-10

• Fix html escaping of edit links in admin

[2.0.1] - 2020-05-08

• Dropped support for Django<2.2

• Dropped support for python3.6

• Added support for python3.8

[2.0.0] - 2020-02-06

• Dropping support for Python 2.7

• Switch to using edx-django-utils TieredCache (a two-layer cache that uses both Django’s cache and an internal request-level cache) to reduce the number of memcached roundtrips. This was a major performance issue that accounted for 10-20% of transaction time for certain courseware views in edx-platform.

• It is now REQUIRED to add RequestCacheMiddleware to middleware to use ConfigModels.

• Remove usage of the “configuration” cache setting. ConfigModels now always use the default Django cache.

• Django Rest Framework 3.7 and 3.8 are no longer supported.

[1.0.1] - 2019-04-23

• Fix auto publishing to PyPI

[1.0.0] - 2019-04-23

Changed

• Unpin django-rest-framework requirements. This is a potentially breaking change if people were relying on this package to ensure the correct version of djangorestframework was being installed.

[0.2.0] - 2018-07-13

Added

• Support for Python 3.6

Removed

• Testing against Django 1.8 - 1.10

Changed

• Updated dependency management to follow OEP-18

[0.1.10] - 2018-05-21

Changed

• Don’t assume the user model is Django’s default auth.User

[0.1.9] - 2017-08-07

Changed

• Updated Django REST Framework dependency to 3.6 as we were not actually compatible with 3.2.

[0.1.8] - 2017-06-19

Added

• Support for Django 1.11.

[0.1.7] - 2017-06-19

• Unreleased version number

[0.1.6] - 2017-06-01

Added

• Support for Django 1.10.

[0.1.1] - [0.1.5] - 2017-06-01

Added

• Add quality testing to travis run.

• Add encrypted password for package PyPI.

Removed

• Remove the quality condition on deployment.

• Remove the version combos known to fail.

Changed

• Allow for lower versions of djangorestframework, to be compatible with edx-platform.

• Constrict DRF to version that works.

• Update versions of requirements via pip-compile.

• Use different test target - test-all instead of validate.

Fixed

• Fix name and supported versions.

[0.1.0] - 2016-10-06

Added

• First release on PyPI.