django-trim 0.4.2

Django trim is a facade to the common features of Django providing a layer of sugar for all those daily components.

Django Trim

Effortlessly trim the boilerplate in your Django projects.

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This convenient little library streamlines your models, views, forms, and more, - supporting core functionality for a smoother, more enjoyable day of coding.

Django Trim complements Django's robust framework, offering a suite of tools that enhance and simplify the creation of URLs, forms, views, models, templates, and more.

• Less typed text, same functionality
• clear, predicable functional naming
• Leverage conventions for faster prototyping
• 100% compatible with existing Django components.

django-trim respects Django's core principles, adding a layer of convenience and efficiency for developers who love Django's power but want to type lss wrds.

Setup

Download:

pip install django-trim

Install

Note this Apply the app trim to your INSTALLED_APPS within your settings.py:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # ...
    'trim',
    # ...
]

You're ready to go.

Some Features

Django trim is a facade to the common features of Django providing a layer of sugar for all those daily components. Some quick examples to quickly trim your code:

Thing	Bits
Models	Auto Model Mixin | Fields | Live String
Views	Authed Views | List View | JSON Views
Forms	quickforms | {% quickform %} tag
URLs	named urls
Admin	register_models
Templates	{% link %} tag | {% wrap %} tag | {% slot %} Tag
Execute	read_one

[!TIP] Head to the docs/ for a list of components!

django-trim shortcuts a wealth of fun django parts. All are designed to trim your code without effort. Some of our favourite features:

Highlights

Models

Use trim.models for easy to grab model fields, shortcuts, and fancy non-magic magic.

Function Model Fields

All django fields have functional (guessable) names. Plus a few shortcuts to trim down those chars!

from trim.models import fields


class HenBasket(models.Model):
    # ForeignKey to another model.
    chicken = fields.fk(Chicken)
    user = fields.user_fk()
    # Standard Fields
    full = fields.bool_false()
    other = fields.text()
    eggs = fields.int(6)
    # A datetime pair; created, updated.
    created, updated = fields.dt_cu_pair()

[!TIP] All trim.models.fields shadow the standard Django field and completely interchangable. Read more in Fields

Auto Composition

Hoist model mixins automatically, from any installed app.

Put this anywhere (Perhaps in a fancy shopping_addons tool)

# shopping_addons.models
from trim.models import AutoModelMixin

class StockPriceAutoMixin(AutoModelMixin):
    """Add "pricing" functionality to a "Stock" model
    """

    def get_price(self, vat=.13):
        return self.stock_price + (self.stock_price * vat)

    class Meta:
        # The target app 'baskets' and its model 'Cart'
        model_name = 'stocks.Stock'

# Using the hoisted model
>>> from stocks.models import Stock
>>> stock = Stock(id=100)
>>> stock.stock_price # existing django field
10
>>> stock.get_price(.33) # Auto mixin.
13.3

It works with any model, allowing you to apply methods on models without manipulating the original model definition (such as the User model)

• Auto Model Mixin

Live Model Access

The trim.live models access provides a shortcut to your all installed your models without the need to import such as trim.live.users.User()

This allows you to call upon a model when required, not in the runtime startup. Allowing you to call upon late models without the circular hell.

Gather any model using standard dotted notation trim.live.myapp.ModelName

from trim import live

# Import any existing model from any app!
MyModel = live.myapp.ModelName

MyModel()

You never need to import your models. Take a look in Live String Docs

Views

Django Trim embraces class-based-views and bundles a set of useful integration mixins and trim tools

Instant View Permissioning

Simplify your class-based-view Generation with a single-point imports and trimmed extras:

from trim import views # All views available
from . import models

class MyModelListView(views.ListView, views.Permissioned):
    model = models.MyModel
    permission_required = 'stocks.view_stockingmethod'


class AddressDetailView(views.UserOwnedMixin, views.DetailView):
    user_field = 'creator'
    user_allow_staff = True

    model = models.Address
    ...

JSON Views

Quick and dirty JSON views wired into the django tooling

from trim.views import JsonView, JsonListView, JsonDetailView

class ExampleJsonListView(JsonListView):
    # A list of JSON objects /items/
    model = models.MyModel

class ExampleJsonDetailView(JsonDetailView):
    # A single object, /items/<str:pk>/
    model = models.MyModel

Or just role your own:

class ExampleJsonView(JsonView):
    """ returns:
        {
            "object": {
                "hello": "world"
            }
        }
    """
    def get_data(self):
        return {'hello': 'world'}

Markdown Views

Bored of writing HTML? Directly use markdown as templates

Django Trim offers a markdown block and some tags - for instant markdown:

{% load markdown %}

<div>
    {% markdown %}
    # Markdown Block.

    Write markdown content within the template directly.
    {% endmarkdown %}
</div>

A markdown template response class for full markdown templating:

from trim import views
from trim.markdown.response import MarkdownTemplateResponse

class MarkdownReponseIndexView(views.TemplateView):
    response_class = MarkdownTemplateResponse
    template_name = "contact/index.md"

Forms

Forms can be tedious. Django Trim offers functional fields, site-wide form template tags and more.

Zero Config, Any Time, Plugged Correctly.

Instantly install prepared forms into a view, utilising the form built-into the class-based FormView:

{% load quickforms %}

{# A rendered form, posted to /myapp/formview-name/ #}
{% quickform.form "app:formview-name" %} <!-- Ready to go POST form -->


<form>
{% quickform "app:formview-name" %} <!-- synonymous to {{ form.as_ul }} -->
</form>

It's wired to your existing view (app:formview-name) Allowing you to build one form endpoint and use the form everywhere.

URLs

Managing the urls.py can be ugly in large apps. Django Trim helps with un-uglification for us lazy trimmers.

Easy Readable URL Definitions

Looking for instantly readable URLs? Trim it of course...

One of our favourite features is the named style urls, where the keyword parameter is our template_name

from trim.urls import paths_named
from . import views

app_name = 'screenshots'

urlpatterns = [] +  paths_named(views,
    # {% link "screenshots:index" "Index Page" %}
    index=('ScreenshotIndexView', '',),
    create=('ScreenshotFormView', 'new/',),
    form_success=('ScreenshotFormSuccessView', 'success/<str:id>/',),

    # {% link "screenshots:info" object.id "Screenshot Info" %}
    info=('ScreenshotRequestUpdateView', 'info/<str:id>/',),
)

But perhaps a dictionary or tuple of URLs, connected to your class based views?

Dictionary flavour definitions, using the ClassName as the key:

from trim import urls
from . import views

app_name = 'website'

trim_patterns = dict(
    MyModelListView='',
    AddressDetailView='<str:pk>/',
    ...
    CreateView=('create', 'new/'),             # Use named urls: website:create
    UpdateView=('update', 'change/<str:pk>/'), # Paths are Paths!
    DeleteView='delete/<str:pk>/',             # _JUST_ a URL? Cool
)

urlpatterns = urls.paths_dict(views, trim_patterns)

Or maybe a more pure tuple of tuples:

from trim import urls
from . import views

app_name = 'website'

trim_patterns = (
    ('NoteIndexView', 'index', '' ),
    ('EntryJsonList', 'entity-list-json', 'entry/list/json/' ),
    ('EntryDetailView', 'entry-detail-json', '<str:pk>/json/' ),
)

urlpatterns = urls.paths_tuple(views, trim_patterns)

Admin

Instantly and automatically generate admin views for all your models

from django.contrib import admin
from trim import admin as t_admin

from . import models

# register all models in this app.
t_admin.register_models(models)

Template Tags

Wrap Tag

Generate wrap templates to import into your view:

{% load wrap slot %}

{% wrap "wraps/target.html" %}
    {% slot %}
        <p>Replace the default content with alternative HTML,
        no slot names needed.</p>
    {% endslot %}
{% endwrap %}

Link Tag

Generate a hyperlink to a view with {% link viewname arguments label %}

{% load link %}
{% link "appname:viewname" "Click this link!" %}

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And so much more!

Philosophy

I aim for the Trim philosophy "convenient and thoughtless" - where a function or method should be quick to type, until I'm ready to replace them with the django builtins.

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT License.

The MIT License offers you the freedom to use, modify, and distribute this code. While it’s not a formal requirement, taking a moment to acknowledge the original contributors reflects a deep-seated respect that is fundamental to the open-source community.

Contributing

We sincerely welcome contributions! There is no barrier for entry and all input is valid input. If you find a bug or have a feature request, please open an issue. If you'd like to contribute code, please fork the repository and submit a pull request.

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Open-source is as much about collaboration and mutual respect as it is about code. As a project committed to this ethos, we promise to always recognize and credit contributions with gratitude and respect.

We value the thoughtfulness and care put into each contribution, not to reduce them to mere numbers or to brush them off with a cavalier "...that’s what open source is...". A project thrives on its community’s spirit and collective efforts.