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Django Workflow Library

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River is a open source workflow system for Django which support on the fly changes on every item in workflow instead of hardcoding states and transitions.

Main goal of developing this framework is to be able to edit any workflow item on the fly. This means, all elements in workflow like states, transitions, user authorizations(permission), group authorization are editable. To do this, all data about the workflow item is persisted into DB. Hence, they can be changed without touching the code and re-deploying your application.

There is ordering aprovments for a transition functionality in django-river. It also provides skipping specific transition of a specific objects.

Documentation

Online documentation is available at http://django-river.rtfd.org/.

Requirements

  • Python (2.7, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4)

  • Pypy (2, 3)

  • Django (1.7, 1.8)

Features

  • Unlimited states

  • Multiple destination

  • Multiple end-point

  • Circular state machines

  • Transition authorization

  • Skiping or disabling spesific step

  • Custom transition hooks

Example Scenarios

Something Like JIRA

Re-Open case

Re Open Case

Closed without Re-Open case

Closed Without Re Open Case

Closed with Re-Open case

Closed With Re Open Case

Installation

  • Install it

    pip install django-river
  • Configure settings

    INSTALLED_APPS=[
    ...
    river
    ...
    ]
  • In your model class which will be processing in workflow;

from django.db import models
from river.models.fields.state import StateField

class MyModel(models.Model):
    my_state_field = StateField()
my_model=MyModel.objects.get(....)

my_model.proceed(transactioner_user)
my_model.proceed(transactioner_user,next_state=State.objects.get(label='re-opened'))

That’s it. Whenever your new model object is saved, it’s state field will be initialized according to given meta data about workflow. proceed methods is injected into your model objects. The object will be in next state if the given user is authorized to do that transaction. When there is two destination states available from current state, next_state must be given to the function. If there is only one state can be at, no needs to give it; django-river will detect it.

Usage for End User

  1. Define your states.

  2. Define your state transitions.

  3. Define your proceeding metas which contains permissions and groups authorization for transitions. Proceeding order is also given here.

Whenever an object of MyModel is inserted in your system, all its workflow initialization is done by django-river.

Usage for Developer

Signals:

pre_transition: it is fired before any transition occured.

Args

Description

workflow_object

Your object on transition

field

Field which you registered object for

source_state

Transition source state object

destination_state

Transition destination state object

proceeding

Proceeding object

post_transition: it is fired before any transition occured.

Args

Description

workflow_object

Your object on transition

field

Field which you registered object for

source_state

Transition source state object

destination_state

Transition destination state object

proceeding

Proceeding object

pre_proceed: it is fired before any is proceeded. Transition does not have to be occured.

Args

Description

workflow_object

Your object proceeded

field

Field which you registered object for

proceeding

Proceeding object

track

Proceeding track object

post_proceed: it is fired before any is proceeded occured. Transition does not have to be occured.

Args

Description

workflow_object

Your object proceeded

field

Field which you registered object for

proceeding

Proceeding object

track

Proceeding track object

pre_final: it is fired before any workflow is completed.

Args

Description

workflow_object

Your object on final

field

Field which you registered object for

post_final: it is fired before any workflow is completed.

Args

Description

workflow_object

Your object on final

field

Field which you registered object for

Handlers:

Handlers are different from django-river signals. These are for spesific object, spesific source_state, spesific destination_state etc. It is fired when the condition is matched.

PreCompletedHandler:

Before an object is on final state, if the condition is match; means object is suitable, it is fired;

from river.handlers.completed import PreCompletedHandler

def handler(my_object,field,*args,**kwargs):
    do_something_with(object,field)

PreCompletedHandler.register(handler,my_object,'my_state_field')

register method parameter

Args

Description

workflow_object

Your object proceeded

Required

field

Field which you registered object for

Required

PostCompletedHandler:

After an object is on final state, if the condition is match; means object is suitable, it is fired;

from river.handlers.completed import PostCompletedHandler

def handler(my_object,field,*args,**kwargs):
    do_something_with(object,field)

PostCompletedHandler.register(handler,my_object,'my_state_field')

register method parameter

Args

Description

workflow_object

Your object proceeded

Required

field

Field which you registered object for

Required

PreTransitionHandler:

Before any transition occurred, if the condition is match; means object, source_state,destination state are suitable, it is fired;

from river.handlers.transition import PreTransitionHandler

def handler(my_object,field,*args,**kwargs):
    do_something_with(object,field)

PreTransitionHandler.register(handler,my_object,'my_state_field')

register method parameter

Args

Description

workflow_object

Your object proceeded

Required

field

Field which you registered object for

Required

source_state

Source state of the tranition

Optional

desination_satte

Destinatio state of the tranition

Optional

PostTransitionHandler:

After any transition occurred, if the condition is match; means object, source_state,destination state are suitable, it is fired;

from river.handlers.transition import PostTransitionHandler

def handler(my_object,field,*args,**kwargs):
    do_something_with(object,field)

PostTransitionHandler.register(handler,my_object,'my_state_field')

register method parameter

Args

Description

workflow_object

Your object proceeded

Required

field

Field which you registered object for

Required

source_state

Source state of the tranition

Optional

desination_satte

Destinatio state of the tranition

Optional

Handler Backends:

Handlers can be persisted into different sources. This functionality is added for multiprocessing. Now, backends supports multiprocessing can be implemented.

Backend

Multiprocessing

Path

MemoryHandlerBackend

No

river.handlers.backends.memory.MemoryHandlerBackend

DatabaseHandlerBackend

Yes

river.handlers.backends.database.DatabaseHandlerBackend

Default backend is MemoryHandlerBackend which does not supports multiprocessing. It can be updated in settings file;

RIVER_HANDLER_BACKEND = {
    'backend':'river.handlers.backends.database.DatabaseHandlerBackend'
}

Models:

States:

Indicates states in your state machine.

Transitions:

These are transition between your states. There must be only one initial state which is in a transition as destination state but no source state to make django-river find it on object creation.

Proceeding Meta:

These are proceeding meta of transitions that describes which user permission or user group will be allowed to proceed the transition. These are kind of template for proceedings will be created for each object. An order can also be given here for the transition. This means, If you want to order proceeding for a transition, you can define it. Assume s1 and s2 are our states and there is a transition defined between them and we have two proceeding meta on this transition. They shall be forpermission1 and permission2. If you want object available for proceeding; first permission1 and after it is proceeded by permission1, then it is on approval the second permission which is permission2, you can do it with djang-river by defining order in this model.

Proceeding:

There are state machines paths which is needed to be proceeded for every particular object. Proceedings are generated on your model object creation by using proceeding meta. This is whole path for the created object. Do not add or edit this model data unless you don’t need specific objects editing like skiping, overriding permissions and groups.

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