django-livefield 4.0.0

Convenient soft-deletion support for Django models

django-livefield

About

A Django field that enables convenient soft-deletion. For Python 2.7/3.3+ and Django 1.8+

Installation

Simple: pip install django-livefield.

Example Usage

>>> from django.db import models
>>> from livefield import LiveField, LiveManager
>>>
>>>
>>> class Person(models.Model):
...    name = models.CharField()
...    live = LiveField()
...
...    objects = LiveManager()
...    all_objects = LiveManager(include_soft_deleted=True)
...
...    class Meta:
...        unique_together = ('name', 'live')
...
...    def delete(self, using=None):
...        self.live = False
...        self.save(using=using)
...
>>> john = Person.objects.create(name='John Cleese')
>>> doppelganger = Person(name='John Cleese')
>>> doppelganger.save()  # Raises an IntegrityError
>>> john.delete()
>>> doppelganger.save()  # Succeeds!

License

MIT. See LICENSE.txt for details.

Contributing

Pull requests welcome! To save everyone some hassle, please open an issue first so we can discuss your proposed change.

In your PR, be sure to add your name to AUTHORS.txt and include some tests for your spiffy new functionality. CI will green-light your build once it passes the unit tests (./setup.py test) and our linters (./lint.sh).

Changelog

3.4.0

• Add support for Python 3.8 - 3.11

• Add support for Django 4.1 and 4.2

• Remove support for old Django versions

• Remove support for old Python versions

3.3.0

• Django 3.x support

• switch to BooleanField as base (Django 4.x deprecation)

3.2.1

• Fix rST formatting in this file to pass PyPI rendering check

3.2.0 (Not released)

• Support Django 2.2

• Support Python 3.7

• Fix metadata to remove deprecated Django versions

• Expand travis tests for versions and database engines

• Remove obsolete pylint suppressions

• Thanks to [@shurph](https://github.com/shurph) for the above!

3.1.0

• Fix [deprecation of context param for Field.from_db_value](https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/28370)

• Support for Django 2.1 (Thanks [@lukeburden](https://github.com/lukeburden)

• Switch tests suite to use pytest

• Remove pylint-django plugin, no longer needed

3.0.0

• Add support for Python 3.6

• Add support for Django 2.0

• Remove support for Python 3.4

• Remove support for old Django versions

• Remove GIS

2.5.0 (Not released)

• Added official Python 3 support.

• Re-added support for Django 1.8. Now supports Django 1.8 and 1.9.

2.4.0 (2016-02-11)

• Drop support for Django 1.8

• Add number of affected rows for delete methods (hard_delete, soft_delete, delete). Note: Django 1.9+ only.

2.1.0 (2014-09-04)

• Add support for Django 1.7.

2.0.0 (2014-07-13)

• Renamed top-level namespace to livefield.

• Restructured internally to match Django convention.

• Added GIS support.

• Added South support.

1.0.0 (2014-02-14)

• Initial release.

• Separated existing code from main application repository.

Developed and maintained by Hearsay Social, Inc..

Contributors

Adam DePue

Akshay Shah

John Lynn

Dylan Verheul

Grant McConnaughey

Luke Burden

James Addison

Krisztian Csizmazia