django-streamfield 1.0.4

StreamField for native Django Admin or with Grappelli

Django StreamField

This is a simple realisation of StreamField's idea from Wagtail CMS

Highlights

You can build your page with different kind of blocks. Sort them and sort the lists inside the blocks.

For editing content inside the blocks, it use native popup mechanism in Django admin interface. This allow you to use other field's widgets inside the blocks as is. For example, if you want to use in your blocks FileBrowseField from django-filebrowser, it will perfectly working without any additional settings.

Module also working with Grappelli Interface (Optional)

Installation

pip install django-streamfield

How to use

Create new app called streamblocks

Put to streamblocks/models.py some models

that you want to use in your stream field. For example:

# streamblocks/models.py

# one object
class RichText(models.Model):
    text = models.TextField(blank=True, null=True)   

    class Meta:
        # This will use as name of block in admin
        verbose_name="Text"

# list of objects
class ImageWithText(models.Model):
    image = models.ImageField(upload_to="folder/")
    text = models.TextField(null=True, blank=True)

    # StreamField option for list of objects
    as_list = True

    class Meta:
        verbose_name="Images with text"

In streamblocks/models.py register blocks

for StreamField as list of your block models

# streamblocks/models.py

...

STREAMBLOCKS = [
    RichText,
    ImageWithText
]

Create templates for each models above, named as lowercase names of the models:

1. streamblocks/templates/streamblocks/richtext.html
2. streamblocks/templates/streamblocks/imagewithtext.html

And use block_content as context.

Note: block_content will be single object if no 'as_list' property in your model, and will be a list of objects if there is.

<!--richtext.html-->
<div class="rich-text-block">
    {{ block_content|safe }}
</div>

<!--imagewithtext.html-->
<ul class="image-with-text-block">
    {% for block in block_content %}
    <li>
        <img src="{{ block.image.url }}" alt="">
        <p>{{ block.text }}</p>
    </li>
    {% endfor %}
</ul>

Add apps to settings.py

Add to INSTALLED_APPS

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'streamblocks',
    'streamfield',
    ...

Add streamfield.urls to main urls.py

urlpatterns += [
    path('streamfield/', include('streamfield.urls'))
]

Add StreamField to your model in your application

And add the models that you want to use in this stream as model_list

# models.py
from streamfield.fields import StreamField
from streamblocks.models import RichText, ImageWithText

class Page(models.Model):
    stream = StreamField(
        model_list=[ 
            RichText,
            ImageWithText
        ],
        verbose_name="Page blocks"
        )

Then if you have your 'page' in context, you can get content by calling method page.stream.render()

...
<div class="content">
    {{ page.stream.render }}
</div>
...

Custom Admin for block's models

Models will automaticaly register in admin If you want provide custom admin class, first unregister models and register again, using StreamBlocksAdmin class.

# streamblocks/admin.py

from django.contrib import admin
from streamfield.admin import StreamBlocksAdmin

from streamblocks.models import RichText

admin.site.unregister(RichText)
@admin.register(RichText)
class RichTextBlockAdmin(StreamBlocksAdmin, admin.ModelAdmin):
    pass

Complex Blocks

You may use StreamField as part of blocks and create with that way complex structure and use {{ block_content.<field_name>.render }}

Cache for reduce the number of database requests

There is two ways of caching:

• Simple cache view with django cache
• Create additional field, for example: 'stream_rendered' and render to this field html in save method

def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
    self.stream_rendered = self.stream.render()
    super().save(*args, **kwargs)

...and use this field in your html

Settings

# settings.py

STREAMFIELD_STREAMBLOCKS_APP_PATH If your app streamblocks located not in project root directory, you need to reflect it in settings.py

STREAMFIELD_STREAMBLOCKS_APP_PATH = 'yourapps.streamblocks'

STREAMFIELD_BLOCK_OPTIONS You may use STREAMFIELD_BLOCK_OPTIONS in settings.py to add some options to block.

For example:

STREAMFIELD_BLOCK_OPTIONS = {
    "margins": {
        "label": "Margins",
        "type": "checkbox",
        "default": True
    }
}

Note: Now only type "checkbox" is working, the other options in plan.