django-exchange 0.0.5

currency, exchange rates and conversions support for django

Currency, exchange rate and conversions support for django projects.

Install

django-exchange is available on pypi repositories so youre free to use pip or easy_install:

$ pip install django-exchange

Or you might want to install from source:

$ wget https://github.com/metglobal/django-exchange/archive/django-exchange-xxx.zip
$ unzip django-exchange-xxx.zip
$ cd django-exchange-xxx
$ python setup.py install

Add exchange into your INSTALLED_APPS settings of your django project:

INSTALLED_APPS += [
    'exchange',
]

Don’t forget to sync your db to create corresponding database tables:

$ python manage.py syncdb

Populating Data

django-exchange supports populating currency and exchange rates using a service provider automatically. Currently it has built in support for openexhangerates.org service. It is only a matter of supplying an api key obtained from http://openexhangerates.org as django settings using the key OPENEXCHANGERATES_API_KEY:

OPENEXCHANGERATES_API_KEY = '<YOU_API_KEY_HERE>'

Now you can populate you currency and exchange rates magically by typing:

$ python manage.py update_exchange_rates

If you want to use you own service provider, you should consider implementing exchange.adapters.BaseAdapter class and pass you implementation class path as an argument to update_exchange_rates command:

$ python manage.py update_exchange_rates -c myproj.providers.MyProvider

Quickstart

Currency conversions is dead easy. There are auxilaray methods helps you calculate conversions using populated exchange rates under exchange.conversions module.

Take a look at the example below:

>>> from exchange.conversion import Price, convert
>>> my_price = Price(50, 'USD')
>>> my_price.convert('YEN')
<Price (4678.50 YEN)>

Documentation

Coming soon…

Todo

• Convenient template tags

• Django price field implementation supporting currency conversions

• Easier api with convenient refaactorings

• A few more builtin exchange rate provider

License

Copyright (c) 2013 Metglobal LLC.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the ‘Software’), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ‘AS IS’, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.