A Django app to track book reading, movie viewing, gig going, play watching, etc.
Project description
Two Django apps:
One to track book and periodical reading, including start and end dates, authors.
One to track events attended (movie, plays, gigs, exhibitions, comedy, dance, classical), including date, venue, and people/organisations involved.
For Django 1.11.x or Django 2.0.x running on Python 3.5 or 3.6.
It has URLs, views and templates to create a site displaying all the data, and Django admin screens to add and edit them. The templates use Bootstrap v4.1.
There are also template tags for displaying data in your own templates (see below).
Installation
Install with pip:
pip install django-spectator
Add the apps to your project’s INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py:
INSTALLED_APPS = [ ... 'spectator.core', 'spectator.events', 'spectator.reading', ]
While spectator.core is required, you can omit either spectator.events or spectator.reading if you only want to use one of them.
Run migrations:
./manage.py migrate
Add to your project’s urls.py:
urlpatterns = [ # ... url(r'^spectator/', include('spectator.core.urls')), ]
You can change the initial path (r'^spectator/') to whatever suits you. e.g. use r'^' to have Spectator’s home page be the front page of your site.
Then, go to Django Admin to add your data.
Settings
There are a few optional settings that can be used in your project’s settings.py file. This is the full list, with their defaults. Descriptions of each are below:
SPECTATOR_GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY = '' SPECTATOR_SLUG_ALPHABET = 'abcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz23456789' SPECTATOR_SLUG_SALT = 'Django Spectator' SPECTATOR_DATE_FORMAT = '%-d %b %Y'
If you get a Google Maps JavaScript API key and add it to the settings, it will enable using a map in the Django Admin to set the location of Venues, and the displaying of Venues’ maps in the public templates:
SPECTATOR_GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY = 'YOUR-API-KEY'
URLs for all objects include automatically-generated slugs, which are based on [Hashids](http://hashids.org) of the object’s ID. You can change which characters are used in these slugs with this setting. e.g.:
SPECTATOR_SLUG_ALPHABET = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890'
You can also change the salt value used to encode the slugs. While the slugs don’t provide complete security (i.e. it’s not impossible to determine the ID on which a slug is based), using your own salt value can’t hurt. e.g.:
SPECTATOR_SLUG_SALT = 'My special salt value is here'
You can change the format used for the dates of Events and for the titles of some sidebar cards in templates, using strftime formatting:
SPECTATOR_DATE_FORMAT = '%Y-%m-%d'
Overview
There are two main parts to Spectator: Reading and Events (movies, gigs, etc). They both share Creators.
Creators
Creators are the authors of books, directors of movies, actors in plays, groups who perfom at gigs, etc.
A Creator has a name and a kind, of either “individual” (e.g. “Anthony Sher”) or “group” (e.g. “Royal Shakespeare Company”).
A Creator is associated with books, movies, events, etc. through roles, which include an optional role_name such as “Author”, “Illustrator”, “Director”, “Playwright”, “Company”, etc. The roles can be given an order so that the creators of a thing will be listed in the appropriate order (such as the director before a movie’s actors).
See spectator/models/core.py for these models.
Reading
A Publication is a thing that’s been read, and has a kind of either “book” or “periodical”. A Publication can optionally be part of a PublicationSeries. e.g. a Publication “Vol. 3 No. 7 September 2005” could be part of the “The Believer” PublicationSeries.
A Publication can have zero or more Readings. A Reading can have a start_date and end_date. If the start_date is set but the end_date isn’t, the Publication is currently being read. When a Reading has been completed, and an end_date added, it can be marked as is_finished or not. If not, it’s because you gave up on the Publication before getting to the end.
Both start_date and end_date indicates a specific day by default. If you don’t know the day, or the month, a granularity can be specified indicating whether the reading started/ended sometime during the month or year.
See spectator/models/reading.py for these models.
Events
An Event specifies a date on which you saw a thing at a particular Venue.
A Venue has a name and, optionally, location details.
Each Event can have zero or more Creators associated directly with it. e.g. the performers at a gig, the comedians at a comedy event. These can be in a specific order, and each with an optional role. e.g:
- The Wedding Present
Role: Headliner
Order: 1
- Buffalo Tom
Role: Support
Order: 2
Events can be different kinds, e.g. “gig”, “cinema”, “theatre”. This is only used for categorising Events into different lists - it doesn’t restrict the kinds of Works that can be associated with it. You could have a “cinema” Event that has a movie, play and dance piece associated with it.
Each Event can have zero or more Works associated with it: movies, plays, classical works or dance pieces. Each Work can have zero or more Creators, each with optional roles, associated directly with it. e.g. “Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer)”, “William Shakespeare (Playwright)” or “Steven Spielberg (Director)”:
Events can be given an optional title (e.g. “Glastonbury Festival”). If a title isn’t specified one is created automatically when needed, based on any Works associated with it, or else any Creators associated with it.
Local development
devproject/ is a basic Django project to use the app locally. Use it like:
$ pip install -r devproject/requirements.txt $ python setup.py develop $ ./devproject/manage.py migrate $ ./devproject/manage.py runserver
Run tests with tox. Install it with:
$ pip install tox
Run all tests in all environments like:
$ tox
To run tests in only one environment, specify it. In this case, Python 3.6 and Django 2.0:
$ tox -e py36-django20
To run a specific test, add its path after --, eg:
$ tox -e py36-django20 -- tests.core.test_models.CreatorTestCase.test_ordering
Running the tests in all environments will generate coverage output. There will also be an htmlcov/ directory containing an HTML report. You can also generate these reports without running all the other tests:
$ tox -e coverage
Making a new release
So I don’t forget…
Put new changes on master.
Update the __version__ in spectator.__init__.py.
Update CHANGES.rst.
Do python setup.py tag.
Do python setup.py publish.
Adding a new Event kind
If it’s simple (like, Gigs, Comedy, etc.) and doesn’t require any specific kind of Works, then:
In spectator.events.models.Event add it in KIND_CHOICES and KIND_SLUGS.
Possibly add a special case for it in Event.get_kind_name_plural().
Add a simple factory for it in spectator.events.factories.
- In tests.events.test_models.EventTestCase:
- Add it to:
test_get_kind()
test_valid_kind_slugs()
test_kind_slug()
test_kind_name()
test_kind_name_plural()
test_get_kinds_data()
Add a test_absolute_url_*() test for this kind.
Adding a new Work kind
In spectator.events.models.Work add it in KIND_CHOICES and KIND_SLUGS.
On the Event model add a new method similar to get_classical_works() for this new kind of Work.
On the spectator.core.models.Creator model add a new method similar to get_classical_works() for this new kind of Work.
Add a simple factory for it in spectator.events.factories.
In spectator/events/templates/spectator_events/event_detail.html add an include to list the works.
In spectator/core/templates/spectator_core/creator_detail.html add an include to list the works.
- In tests/ add equivalents of:
core.test_models.CreatorTestCase.test.get_classical_works()
events.test_models.EventTestCase.test_get_classical_works()
events.test_models.WorkTestCase.test_absolute_url_classicalwork()
events.test_models.WorkTestCase.test_get_list_url_classicalwork()
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