django-eventtools is a lightweight library designed to handle repeating and one-off event occurrences for display on a website.
Installation
Download the source from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-eventtools/ and run python setup.py install, or:
> pip install django-eventtools
Django 1.8 or higher is required.
Setup
Given the following models:
from django.db import models
from eventtools.models import BaseEvent, BaseOccurrence
class Event(BaseEvent):
title = models.CharField(max_length=100)
class Occurrence(BaseOccurrence):
event = models.ForeignKey(Event)
Usage
Create a sample event & occurrences
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> from dateutil import rrule
>>> from myapp.models import Event
>>> event = Event.objects.create(title='Test event')
>>> once_off = Occurrence.objects.create(
event=event,
start=datetime(2016, 1, 1, 12, 0),
end=datetime(2016, 1, 1, 2, 0))
>>> christmas = Occurrence.objects.create(
event=event,
start=datetime(2015, 12, 25, 7, 0),
end=datetime(2015, 12, 25, 22, 0),
repeat=rrule.YEARLY)
>>> daily = Occurrence.objects.create(
event=event,
start=datetime(2016, 1, 1, 7, 0),
end=datetime(2016, 1, 1, 8, 0),
repeat=rrule.DAILY)
Event and Occurrence instances, and their associated querysets, all support the all_occurrences method, which takes two optional arguments - from_date and to_date, which may be dates or datetimes. from_date defaults to the current day, to_date to None. The method returns a python generator yielding tuples in the format (start, end, data) - for example:
>>> Event.objects.all().all_occurrences()
>>> event.all_occurrences(from_date=datetime(2015, 1, 1, 10, 0))
>>> event.occurrence_set.all().all_occurrences(to_date=date(2016, 1, 1))
>>> occurrence.all_occurrences(from_date=date(2016, 1, 1),
to_date=date(2016, 12, 31))
A next_occurrence method is also provided, taking the same arguments, but returning a single occurrence tuple.
>>> event.next_occurrence() >>> event.next_occurrence(from_date=date(2016, 1, 1))
Queryset filtering
Event and Occurrence querysets can be filtered, but due to uncertainty with repetitions, from_date filtering is only an approximation (whereas to_date filtering is accurate). If you need a queryset filtered exactly, pass exact=True - this will filter using generated occurrences but still return a queryset - but be careful with this as it may be very slow and/or CPU-hungry. For example
>>> Event.objects.for_period(from_date=date(2015, 1, 1),
to_date=date(2015, 12, 31))
>>> event.occurrence_set.for_period(from_date=date(2015, 1, 1), exact=True)
Sorting querysets
Event and Occurrence querysets can also be sorted by their next occurrence using the sort_by_next method. By default this sorts instances by their first occurrence; the optional from_date argument will sort by the next occurrence after from_date. For example
>>> Event.objects.all().sort_by_next() >>> event.occurrence_set.for_period(from_date=date(2015, 1, 1)) \ >>> .sort_by_next(date(2015, 1, 1))
Note that this method returns a sorted list, not a queryset.
Adding additional data to occurrence tuples
If you need more information about the occurrence than just a pair of dates, add an occurrence_data property to your BaseOccurrence subclass - i.e.
class Occurrence(BaseOccurrence):
event = models.ForeignKey(Event)
@property
def occurrence_data(self):
return {
'event_title': self.event.title,
'image': self.event.image,
}
The result will be appended to the occurrence tuple, i.e. (start, end, data)
Running tests
Use tox (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tox):
> pip install tox > cd path-to/django-eventtools > tox
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