django-prettyjson 0.3.0

Enables pretty JSON viewer in Django forms, admin, or templates

# django-prettyjson

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Enables pretty JSON viewer in Django forms, admin, or templates. The viewer is adapted from [jQuery JSONView](https://github.com/yesmeck/jquery-jsonview). It is compatible with almost anything: JSON stored in a string, a jsonfield (using django.contrib.postgres or [django-jsonfield](https://github.com/bradjasper/django-jsonfield/)), or any python object that can be serialized to JSON (using [standardjson](https://github.com/audreyr/standardjson)).

## Demo

See http://kevinmickey.github.io/django-prettyjson

## Installation

At the command line:

```sh
pip install django-prettyjson
```

## Configuration

Add `'prettyjson'` to `INSTALLED_APPS` in `settings.py`:

```python
INSTALLED_APPS = (
...,
'prettyjson',
)
```

## Usage

In a form or admin of a model, enable a pretty JSON viewer for a particular field:

```python
from prettyjson import PrettyJSONWidget

class JsonForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Test
fields = '__all__'
widgets = {
'myjsonfield': PrettyJSONWidget(),
}

class JsonAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
form = JsonForm
```

Enable pretty JSON viewer for every JSONField of a model:

```python
from django.contrib.postgres.fields import JSONField

class JsonAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
formfield_overrides = {
JSONField: {'widget': PrettyJSONWidget }
}
```

In templates, you can also enable a pretty JSON viewer. Use the `prettyjson` template tag with a string JSON or with objects (dicts, QuerySets, etc.) that can be serialized to a JSON. Note that the template tag must be loaded using `{% load prettyjson %}`. It also has CSS and JS that must be included using `{% prettyjson_setup %}`.

```htmldjango
{% extends "base.html" %}

{% load prettyjson %}

{% block header %}
{{ block.super }}
{% prettyjson_setup %}
{% endblock %}

{% block content %}
{% prettyjson myqueryset %}
{% prettyjson mydict %}
{% prettyjson '{"hey": "guy","anumber": 243,"anobject": {"whoa": "nuts","anarray": [1,2,"thr<h1>ee"], "more":"stuff"},"awesome": true,"bogus": false,"meaning": null, "japanese":"明日がある。", "link": "http://jsonview.com", "notLink": "http://jsonview.com is great"}' %}
{% prettyjson '{}' %}
{% endblock %}
```

The setup includes jQuery, loaded as django.jQuery to avoid namespace conflict. If your page already includes jQuery, use `{% prettyjson_setup jquery=False %}` to avoid loading jQuery a second time.

### Configure Rendering

By default the jsonwidget will render as a raw string with a button to click to change it to parsed json. For it to render as parsed json initially, you can pass an argument:

```python
class JsonAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
formfield_overrides = {
JSONField: {'widget': PrettyJSONWidget(attrs={'initial': 'parsed'})}
}
```

## Running Tests

In development.

```sh
source <YOURVIRTUALENV>/bin/activate
(myenv) $ pip install -r requirements-test.txt
(myenv) $ python runtests.py
```

## Credits

Dependencies, parts of code, and/or sources of inspiration:

* [jQuery JSONView](https://github.com/yesmeck/jquery-jsonview)
* [standardjson](https://github.com/audreyr/standardjson)

Tools used in developing, testing, and/or rendering this package:

* [Cookiecutter](https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter)
* [cookiecutter-djangopackage] (https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-djangopackage)




History
-------

0.1.0 (2016-05-28)
++++++++++++++++++

* First release.

0.2.0 (2016-05-29)
++++++++++++++++++

* Switched to using standardjson for encoding objects
* Added setup option for those with jquery already loaded

0.2.1 (2016-07-01)
++++++++++++++++++

* Fixed manifest

0.2.2 (2016-12-07)
++++++++++++++++++

* Added dependencies to setup.py

0.3.0 (2017-05-23)
++++++++++++++++++

* Added "initial" option to show raw or parsed initial
* Requires six