django-essence 0.1.0

Django reusable app with generic and essencial resources.

Simple project with base common resources for almost any Django project.

Installation

The installation is performed by using pip:

pip install django-essence

To enable django-essence in a Django project it’s needed to add it to INSTALLED_APPS in the project settings file:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'django_essence',
    ...
]

Resources

The current implementation of django-essence offers only common base abstract models listed below:

• TimestampedModel: model with attributes (fields) useful for audit purposes. Fields:

  • created_at

  • updated_at

• EssenceModel: model inherited from TimestampedModel with an UUIDField. Fields:

  • id

  • created_at

  • updated_at

• EssencePersistentModel: model inherited from EssenceModel with “soft delete” feature. Fields:

  • id

  • created_at

  • updated_at

  • deleted

• EssenceSlugModel: model inherited from EssenceModel with a enhanced slug field. Fields:

  • id

  • created_at

  • updated_at

  • slug

All models are available importing from:

from django_essence.models import *

Running tests (development)

First install development dependencies with:

make install

Than run tests with:

pytest