django-site-settings 0.1.0

Dynamic site settings for Django with caching

Django Site Settings

Django Site Settings is a reusable Django application designed to manage dynamic, type-safe global configurations directly from the Django Admin panel. Built on top of django-solo, it guarantees a singleton pattern for your core settings while offering an advanced, customizable caching layer.

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Features

• Singleton Architecture: Ensures only one global configuration instance exists.
• Strict Type Validation: Supports String, Integer, Float, and Boolean data types with strict validation on save.
• High-Performance Caching: Automatically caches values to minimize database hits.
• Multi-Cache Support: Seamlessly integrates with your existing cache infrastructure (Redis, Memcached, etc.).
• Smart Cache Invalidation: Uses Django signals to instantly purge modified or deleted keys.
• Template Tag Ready: Built-in template tags to fetch settings directly inside your HTML layouts.

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Requirements

• Python: 3.10, 3.11, 3.12+
• Django: 5.0, 6.0+
• django-solo: 2.3.0+

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Installation

Via pip

pip install django-site-settings

Via Poetry

To add the package as a dependency using Poetry, run the following command:

poetry add django-site-settings

Configuration

1. Add solo and django_site_settings to your project's INSTALLED_APPS inside settings.py:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # ... Django core apps
    
    "solo",
    "django_site_settings",
    
    # ... Your local apps
]

2. Run the database migrations:

python manage.py migrate

Advanced Customization (Optional)

You can customize the caching behavior by adding the following variables to your main Django settings.py:

# Cache TTL in seconds (Default is 7 days)
SITE_SETTINGS_CACHE_TIMEOUT = 86400  # 24 hours

# Specify which cache backend configuration from your CACHES setting to use (Default is "default")
SITE_SETTINGS_CACHE_ALIAS = "fast_redis"

Usage

Fetching Settings in Python Code

Use the get_setting utility function anywhere in your Python business logic (services, models, tasks, or utilities) with automatic type conversion:

from django_site_settings.utils import get_setting

# Safely pulls from cache with strict type conversion
max_attempts = get_setting("MAX_LOGIN_ATTEMPTS", default=3)
is_maintenance = get_setting("MAINTENANCE_MODE", default=False)
api_timeout = get_setting("EXTERNAL_API_TIMEOUT", default=5.0)

if is_maintenance:
    # Handle maintenance logic directly
    pass

Fetching Settings inside Django Templates

Load the custom template tags to output values natively inside your HTML files:

{% load site_settings_tags %}

<footer>
    <p>Contact Support: {% site_setting "SUPPORT_EMAIL" default="[e-mail]" %}</p>
    
    {% site_setting "SHOW_PROMO_BANNER" default=False as show_banner %}
    {% if show_banner %}
        <div class="banner">Big sale active!</div>
    {% endif %}
</footer>