django-mongonaut 0.2.21

An introspective interface for Django and MongoDB

django-mongonaut

Info:

An introspective interface for Django and MongoDB.

Version:

0.2.21

Maintainer:

Daniel Greenfeld (http://pydanny.com)

About

django-mongonaut is an introspective interface for working with MongoDB via mongoengine. Rather then attempt to staple this functionality into Django’s Admin interface, django-mongonaut takes the approach of rolling a new framework from scratch.

By writing it from scratch I get to avoid trying to staple ORM functionality on top of MongoDB, a NoSQL key/value binary-tree store.

Features

• Automatic introspection of mongoengine documents.

• Ability to constrain who sees what and can do what.

• Full control to add, edit, and delete documents

• More awesome stuff! See http://django-mongonaut.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html#features

Installation

Made as easy as possible, setup is actually easier than django.contrib.admin. Furthermore, the only dependencies are mongoengine and pymongo. Eventually django-mongonaut will be able to support installations without mongoengine.

Get MongoDB:

Download the right version per http://www.mongodb.org/downloads

Get mongoengine (and pymongo):

pip install mongoengine=>0.5.2

Get the code:

pip install django-mongonaut==0.2.20

Install the dependency in your settings.py:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
...
'mongonaut',
...
)

You will need the following also set up:

• django.contrib.sessions

• django.contrib.messages

Note

No need for autodiscovery() with django-mongonaut!

Add the mongonaut urls.py file to your urlconf file:

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    ...
    (r'^mongonaut/', include('mongonaut.urls')),
    ...
)

Configuration

django-mongonaut will let you duplicate much of what django.contrib.admin gives you, but in a way more suited for MongoDB. Still being implemented, but already works better than any other MongoDB solution for Django. A simple example:

# myapp/mongoadmin.py

# Import the MongoAdmin base class
from mongonaut.sites import MongoAdmin

# Import your custom models
from blog.models import Post

# Instantiate the MongoAdmin class
# Then attach the mongoadmin to your model
Post.mongoadmin = MongoAdmin()

• http://django-mongonaut.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api.html

Documentation

All the documentation for this project is hosted at http://django-mongonaut.rtfd.org.

Dependencies

• mongoengine >=0.5.2

• pymongo (comes with mongoengine)

• sphinx (optional - for documentation generation)

Support this project!

You can hire the lead maintainer to perform dedicated work on this package. Please email [e-mail].

CHANGELOG

• 0.2.21 (05/19/2014)

  • Backwards compatible templates so things work in Django 1.4 again. (@ashishsingh2205)

• 0.2.20 (26/03/2014)

  • Python 3.3 compatibility (@haard)

  • Working test harness (@j1z0)

  • Fixed missing url function call in documentation (@JAORMX)

• 0.2.19 (18/07/2013)

  • Use Select widget if choices defined for a field (@jeff-ogmento )

  • Use ordering if defined in MongoAdmin class (@jeff-ogmento )

  • Respect order of list_fields in admin class (@jeff-ogmento )

  • Fixed “django.conf.urls.defaults is deprecated” (@swaroopch)

  • Fix search (@swaroopch)

  • Make index page also password-protected (@swaroopch)

• 0.2.18 Various things

• 0.2.17 Can now add, and modify ListFields and Embedded document fields @garrypolley

• 0.2.16 ListFields can be added and updated @garrypolley

• 0.2.15 Editing or Adding a document does not require all fields to be filled out @garrypolley

• 0.2.14 Fixed pymongo version thanks to @marsam and pagination fixes thanks to @jerzyk

• 0.2.13 Fields validation and type conversion thanks to @jerzyk

• 0.2.12 Bump to mongoengine 0.6.2, PEP-8, and fixing the is_authenticated problem in default permission controls.

• 0.2.11 Change style over to Twitter Bootstrap 2.0.0, Add templates to manifest

• 0.2.10 Proper Reference field saves, more permission fixes

• 0.2.9 Permissions correction - Do remember this is in ALPHA!!!

• 0.2.8 Test components, permission controls in the views, first pass on deletes, Reference field display and some really bad SELECT widget implementations on it.

• authenticated Permissions refactor, list_fields implementation, and ability to add new documents

• 0.2.6 Major performance enhancement of the DocumentListView

• 0.2.5 Added EmbeddedDocument to form views

• 0.2.4 Installation fix

• 0.2.3 Installation fix

• 0.2.2 Supporting of Boolean and Datetime fields and search to boot

• 0.2.1 Project description fix

• 0.2.0 basic form saves, pagination, and formatting

• 0.1.0 Inception and fundamentals