django_utility_suite 0.1.7

A Django utility suite with additional features

Django Utility Suite

Description

django_utility_suite is a set of utilities to enhance Django development

Installation

You can install this package with:

pip install django-utility-suite

Or if you use Poetry:

poetry add django-utility-suite

Usage

Django Configuration

Add django_utility_suite to INSTALLED_APPS in your settings.py:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'django_utility_suite',
]

Package utils

1. Performance optimization and cache management.

Using ReadOnlyViewSetMixin

This mixin provides an optimized way to handle caching in read-only views.

from django_utility_suite.api.mixins import ReadOnlyViewSetMixin
from rest_framework.viewsets import ReadOnlyModelViewSet
from .models import MyModel
from .serializers import MyModelSerializer

class MyModelViewSet(ReadOnlyViewSetMixin, ReadOnlyModelViewSet):
    queryset = MyModel.objects.all()
    serializer_class = MyModelSerializer
    
    def get_cache_key(self):
        if self.action == "retrieve":
            return f"mimodel-retrieve-{self.lookup_field}"
        elif self.action == "list":
            return f"mimodel-list"
    
    @property
    def cache_prefix(self):
        return "my_model"

Using create_key_from_list (minimal if/else example)

Use create_key_from_list to cache responses under a short key generated from a hash of the list (normalized, regardless of order or duplicates). This avoids very long keys and gives deterministic cache hits; you can adjust the length with length_bytes.

Example: ["A", "b", "a"] → my_model:{list}:Q2r8y8tP (same hash as ["b","a"]).

from django_utility_suite.api.mixins import ReadOnlyViewSetMixin
from rest_framework.viewsets import ReadOnlyModelViewSet
from .models import MyModel
from .serializers import MyModelSerializer

class MyModelViewSet(ReadOnlyViewSetMixin, ReadOnlyModelViewSet):
    queryset = MyModel.objects.all()
    serializer_class = MyModelSerializer

    def get_cache_key(self):
        params = self.request.query_params
        data = getattr(self.request, "data", {})
        lookup_value = self.kwargs.get(self.lookup_field, "")

        if self.action == "retrieve":
            # Simple scalar key for detail
            return lookup_value

        elif self.action == "list":
            # Example: combine a scalar filter with a list-type query param (?slugs=a,b,c)
            category = params.get("category", "")
            slugs = (params.get("slugs") or "").split(",")
            # Use an empty prefix so the mixin's cache_prefix is the only namespace
            return f"list:{category}:{self.create_key_from_list(slugs, length_bytes=10, prefix='')}"

        elif self.action == "search":
            # Example: list-type input coming from JSON payload: {"ids": [1,2,3]}
            ids = data.get("ids", [])
            return f"search:{self.create_key_from_list(ids, length_bytes=10, prefix='')}"

        # Default (no cache or unsupported action)
        return ""

    @property
    def cache_prefix(self):
        # Global namespace for this viewset in the cache backend
        return "my_model"

Development

If you want to contribute, clone the repository and use Poetry to manage dependencies:

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/django-utility-suite.git
cd django-utility-suite
poetry install

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license.