django-fieldbustier

The purpose of this django-app is to allow you to add, delete, or modify fields in models from third-party applications outside of your django project.

Why this name?

Because wanting to add models from another django-app, from your own, is a bit like wanting to get on a boat and do it by shouting "All Aboard", a knife between your teeth.

And in French, a pirate is also a "flibustier", a word quite close to fieldbustier, so -> django-fieldbustier.

How to use django-fieldbustier

First, add "django_fieldbustier" to your installed apps, above any apps that you intend to modify.

Then, you must declare the fields you want to add, modify, or delete in your settings.

There are three configuration variables that are:

• ADD_FIELD_DJANGO_FIELDBUSTIER to add fields
• REPLACE_FIELD_DJANGO_FIELDBUSTIER to modify fields
• DELETE_FIELD_DJANGO_FIELDBUSTIER to delete fields

To add or modify fields you must use FieldBustierConfig. To delete fields you must use DeleteFieldBustierConfig.

FieldBustierConfig are namedtuple with these attributes :

• app_name
• model_klass
• field_name
• field_klass (You can use Django Field or your Field)
• args (a tuple for positional args)
• kwargs (a dict for keyword args)

DeleteFieldBustierConfig are namedtuple with these attributes :

• app_name
• model_klass
• field_name

Add a Field

from django_fieldbustier.fieldbustier_config import FieldBustierConfig

ADD_FIELD_DJANGO_FIELDBUSTIER = [
    FieldBustierConfig(
        "demo_app",
        "DummyModel",
        "new_char_field",
        "CharField",
        ("An another CharField",),
        {"blank": True, "max_length": 200},
    )
]

Modify a Field

from django_fieldbustier.fieldbustier_config import FieldBustierConfig

REPLACE_FIELD_DJANGO_FIELDBUSTIER = [
    FieldBustierConfig(
        app_name="demo_app",
        model_klass="DummyModel",
        field_name="char_field",
        field_klass="CharField",
        args=("CharField FieldBusted !",),
        kwargs={"blank": True, "max_length": 200},
    ),
    FieldBustierConfig(
        "demo_app",
        "DummyModel",
        "decimal_field",
        "DecimalField",
        ("Decimal Field FieldBustier",),
        {"default": 2.3, "max_digits": 14, "decimal_places": 3},
    ),
]

Delete a Field

from django_fieldbustier.fieldbustier_config import FieldBustierConfig

DELETE_FIELD_DJANGO_FIELDBUSTIER = [DeleteFieldBustierConfig("demo_app",
                                                             "DummyModel",
                                                             "int_field")]

Migrations

GENERATE_FIELDBUSTIER_MIGRATIONS option

If you have used SQL to directly implement your changes, then you will not want the migrations to be generated.

To do this, you just have to set (in your settings) GENERATE_FIELDBUSTIER_MIGRATIONS to False.

Location of migration files

By default, the migration files of an application are located in the application. In our case, if you use Django-Fieldbustier, we want to avoid modifying the target application. The default behavior is therefore not appropriate at all.

To avoid this, simply use django's MIGRATION_MODULES variable to choose where you want your migrations to be generated. Ideally, this should be done at the beginning of a project to avoid issues.

For instance, if editing a model in the built-in django app auth, we might want to save the migrations in our local users app. In this case, we could add the following to settings:

MIGRATION_MODULES = {'auth': 'users.migrations_auth'}

This requires copying the original auth migrations to the migrations_auth folder inside your users app. Now your project will look for (and add) migrations files for the auth app in the migrations_auth folder inside your users app.

Thanks

Thanks for Olivier Meunier, Creme CRM codebase and Mezzanine injection Fields system for the original idea.