django-reversion-compare 0.4.0

history compare for django-reversion

django-reversion-compare

django-reversion-compare is an extension to django-reversion that provides a history compare view to compare two versions of a model which is under reversion.

Comparing model versions is not a easy task. Maybe there are different view how this should looks like. This project will gives you a generic way to see whats has been changed.

Many parts are customizable by overwrite methods or subclassing, see above.

Requirements

• Django 1.8.x

• django-tools (only for running the unittests!)

installation

Just use:

pip install django-reversion-compare

Optional you can install google-diff-match-patch otherwise difflib would be used. The easiest way it to use the unofficial package diff-match-patch, e.g.:

pip install diff-match-patch

setup

Add reversion_compare to INSTALLED_APPS in your settings.py, e.g.:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django...',
    ...
    'reversion', # https://github.com/etianen/django-reversion
    'reversion_compare', # https://github.com/jedie/django-reversion-compare
    ...
)

# Add the reversion modes to admin interface:
# ADD_REVERSION_ADMIN=True

usage

Inherit from CompareVersionAdmin instead of VersionAdmin to get the compare feature.

admin.py e.g.:

from django.contrib import admin
from reversion_compare.admin import CompareVersionAdmin

from my_app.models import ExampleModel

class ExampleModelAdmin(CompareVersionAdmin):
    pass

admin.site.register(ExampleModel, ExampleModelAdmin)

If you’re using an existing third party app, then you can add patch django-reversion-compare into its admin class by using the reversion_compare.helpers.patch_admin() method. For example, to add version control to the built-in User model:

from reversion_compare.helpers import patch_admin

patch_admin(User)

e.g.: Add django-cms Page model:

from cms.models.pagemodel import Page
from reversion_compare.helpers import patch_admin


# Patch django-cms Page Model to add reversion-compare functionality:
patch_admin(Page)

customize

It’s possible to change the look for every field or for a entire field type. You must only define a methods to your admin class with this name scheme:

• "compare_%s" % field_name

• "compare_%s" % field.get_internal_type()

If there exist no method with this name scheme, the fallback_compare() method would be used.

example for specify a compare method for a model field by name:

class YourAdmin(CompareVersionAdmin):
    def compare_foo_bar(self, obj_compare):
        """ compare the foo_bar model field """
        return "%r <-> %r" % (obj_compare.value1, obj_compare.value2)

and example using patch_admin with custom version admin class:

patch_admin(User, AdminClass=YourAdmin)

screenshots

Here some screenshots of django-reversion-compare:

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How to select the versions to compare:

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from v0.1.0: DateTimeField compare (last update), TextField compare (content) with small changes and a ForeignKey compare (child model instance was added):

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from v0.1.0: Same as above, but the are more lines changed in TextField and the ForeignKey relation was removed:

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Example screenshot from v0.3.0: a many-to-many field compare (friends, hobbies):

• In the first line, the m2m object has been changed.

• line 2: A m2m object was deleted

• line 3: A m2m object was removed from this entry (but not deleted)

• line 4: This m2m object has not changed

test

start local server

We ship a simple test project. To use this, do this steps:

$ cd path/to/django-reversion-compare/reversion_compare_test_project/
django-reversion-compare/reversion_compare_test_project$ ./reset.sh # creates test.db3 with syncdb and run createsuperuser
django-reversion-compare/reversion_compare_test_project$ ./manage.py runserver --traceback

See, also: reversion_compare_test_project

run unittests

via setup.py:

$ cd path/to/django-reversion-compare
django-reversion-compare$ ./setup.py test

via manage.py:

$ cd path/to/django-reversion-compare/reversion_compare_test_project/
django-reversion-compare/reversion_compare_test_project$ ./manage.py test reversion_compare

Django compatibility

Reversion-Compare	Django
>=v0.4	v1.8
<v0.4	v1.4

changelog

• v0.4.0 - 02.02.2015:

  • Updates for django 1.8 support

  • Add settings.ADD_REVERSION_ADMIN

• v0.3.5 - 03.01.2013:

  • Remove date from version string. issues 9

• v0.3.4 - 20.06.2012:

  • Use VersionAdmin.revision_manager rather than default_revision_manager, contributed by Mark Lavin - see: pull request 7

  • Use logging for all debug prints, contributed by Bojan Mihelac - see: pull request 8

• v0.3.3 - 11.06.2012:

  • Bugfix “ValueError: zero length field name in format” with Python 2.6 issues 5

• v0.3.2 - 04.06.2012:

  • Bugfix for Python 2.6 in unified_diff(), see: AttributeError: ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘_format_range_unified’

• v0.3.1 - 01.06.2012:

  • Bugfix: force unicode in html diff

  • Bugfix in unittests

• v0.3.0 - 16.05.2012:

  • Enhanced handling of m2m changes with follow and non-follow relations.

• v0.2.2 - 15.05.2012:

  • Compare many-to-many in the right way.

• v0.2.1 - 10.05.2012:

  • Bugfix for models which has no m2m field: https://github.com/jedie/django-reversion-compare/commit/c8e042945a6e78e5540b6ae27666f9b0cfc94880

• v0.2.0 - 09.05.2012:

  • many-to-many compare works, too.

• v0.1.0 - 08.05.2012:

  • First release

• v0.0.1 - 08.05.2012:

  • collect all compare stuff from old “diff” branch

  • see also: https://github.com/etianen/django-reversion/issues/147

Links

IRC	#pylucid on freenode.net
Github	http://github.com/jedie/django-reversion-compare
Python Packages	http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-reversion-compare/
Travis CI	http://travis-ci.org/jedie/django-reversion-compare

contact

Come into the conversation, besides the github communication features:

Forum	official ‘django-reversion-compare’ Forum
IRC	#pylucid on freenode.net (Yes, the PyLucid channel…)
webchat	http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=pylucid