django-siteprefs 0.2.0

Reusable app for Django introducing site preferences system

http://github.com/idlesign/django-siteprefs

What’s that

django-siteprefs allows Django applications settings to come alive

Let’s suppose you have your pretty settings.py file with you application:

from django.conf import settings

MY_OPTION_1 = getattr(settings, 'MY_APP_MY_OPTION_1', True)
MY_OPTION_2 = getattr(settings, 'MY_APP_MY_OPTION_2', 'No alien utopia // Will long survive our bravery')
MY_OPTION_42 = getattr(settings, 'MY_APP_MY_OPTION_42', 42)

Now you want some of those options to be exposed to the Django Admin interface.

Let’s say we expose MY_OPTION_1, MY_OPTION_2, MY_OPTION_42 options:

from django.conf import settings

MY_OPTION_1 = getattr(settings, 'MY_APP_MY_OPTION_1', True)
MY_OPTION_2 = getattr(settings, 'MY_APP_MY_OPTION_2', 'No alien utopia // Will long survive our bravery')
MY_OPTION_42 = getattr(settings, 'MY_APP_MY_OPTION_42', 42)


# To be sure our app is still functional without django-siteprefs
# we use this try-except block.
try:
    from siteprefs.toolbox import patch_locals, register_prefs

    patch_locals()  # This bootstrap is required before `register_prefs` step.

    # And that's how we expose our options to Admin.
    register_prefs(MY_OPTION_1, MY_OPTION_2, MY_OPTION_42)

except ImportError:
    pass

We’re done with the app. Now to your projects’ settings.py.

• Add siteprefs into INSTALLED_APPS;

• Use siteprefs autodiscover_siteprefs function to locate all the options exposed by apps in your project:

  from siteprefs.toolbox import autodiscover_siteprefs
  
  autodiscover_siteprefs()

Now you can view your settings in Django Admin.

If you want those settings to be editable through the Admin - siteprefs allows that too, and even more.

Read the docs ;)

Documentation

http://django-siteprefs.readthedocs.org/