django-nifty-layout 0.2.0

A flexible data composition tool to simplify writing templates.

django-nifty-layout

Version: 0.2.0

A simple but flexible layout tool for composing and transforming data for structured template components. Inspired by crispy-forms Layout, but without the forms.

django-nifty-layout is free software distributed under the MIT License.

Quick Start

1. Install the django-nifty-layout package from PyPI

   $ pip install django-nifty-layout
   

2. Go grab a drink, you are all done!

Sample Usage

layout.py

from django.utils.formats import date_format

from nifty_layout.components import (
   DictCompositeNode as Dct,
   FieldNode as Fld,   
   Seq,
)

# ----- Safe Date Formatter ----- #
date_formatter = lambda val, **kwargs: "" if val is None else date_format(val, SHORT_DATE_FORMAT)

layout = Dct(
    dict(
        overview=Seq(
             "title",
             Fld("date", formatter=date_formatter),
             report_type",
             "location",
             labeller="Overview",
        ),
        contacts=Seq(
            Dct(dict(
                    name="contact_name",
                    contact_methods=Seq("contact_email"),
                ), labeller="Primary Contact"
            ),
            Dct(dict(
                    name="reported_by_name",
                    contact_methods=Seq("reported_by_phone_num", "reported_by_email"),
                 ), labeller="Reported By"
            ),
            labeller="Contacts",
        ),
        ...
    )
)

views.py

def report_view(request, pk):
   ...
   obj = Report.objects.get(pk=pk)
   ...
   return render(request, "template.html", dict(report=layout.bind(obj)))

template.html

...
<div class="report>
  <h2>report.overview.label</h2>
  {% for node in report.overview %}
      <div class="row">
         <div class="col label">{{ node.label }}</div>
         <div class="col value">{{ node.value|default:"" }}</div>
      {% endfor %}
      </div>
  {% endfor %}
  <div class="row">
    {% for contact in report.contacts %}
      <div class="col">
        {% include "contact_card.html" %}
      </div>
    {% endfor %}
  </div>
   ...
</div>   

Get Me Some of That

• Source Code

• Issues

• PyPI

MIT License

Check Out the Demo App

1. pip install -e git+https://github.com/powderflask/django-nifty-layout.git#egg=django-nifty-layout
2. inv demo.install ** coming soon **
3. python demo_app/manage.py runserver

See demo_app/README

Acknowledgments

This project would be impossible to maintain without the help of our generous contributors

Technology Colophon

Without django and the django dev team, the universe would have fewer rainbows and ponies.

This package was originally created with cookiecutter and the cookiecutter-powder-pypackage project template.

For Developers

Install invoke, pip-tools, tox for all the CLI goodness

 pip install invoke pip-tools tox

Initialise the development environment using the invoke task

inv tox.venv

Or create it with tox directly

tox d -e dev .venv

Or build and install the dev requirements with pip

inv deps.compile-dev
pip install -r requirements_dev.txt

Tests

pytest

or

tox r

or run tox environments in parallel using

tox p

Code Style / Linting

$ isort
$ black
$ flake8

Versioning

• Semantic Versioning

  $ bumpver show
  

Build / Deploy Automation

• invoke

  $ invoke -l
  

• GitHub Actions (see .github/workflows)
• GitHub Webhooks (see settings/hooks)