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Seamless integration between Django REST framework and Datatables (https://datatables.net) with supporting Datatables editor

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django-rest-framework-datatables-editor

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Overview

This package provides seamless integration between Django REST framework and Datatables with supporting Datatables editor.

  • It handles searching, filtering, ordering and most usecases you can imagine with Datatables.

  • You don’t have to create a different API, your API still work exactly the same .

How to use

Install

$ pip install djangorestframework-datatables-editor

Configuration

To enable Datatables support in your project, add 'rest_framework_datatables_editor' to your INSTALLED_APPS, and modify your REST_FRAMEWORK settings like this:

REST_FRAMEWORK = {
    'DEFAULT_RENDERER_CLASSES': (
        'rest_framework.renderers.JSONRenderer',
        'rest_framework.renderers.BrowsableAPIRenderer',
        'rest_framework_datatables_editor.renderers.DatatablesRenderer',
    ),
    'DEFAULT_FILTER_BACKENDS': (
        'rest_framework_datatables_editor.filters.DatatablesFilterBackend',
    ),
    'DEFAULT_PAGINATION_CLASS': 'rest_framework_datatables_editor.pagination.DatatablesPageNumberPagination',
    'PAGE_SIZE': 50,
}

For using Datatables editor you should use DatatablesEditorModelViewSet instead ModelViewSet or add EditorModelMixin to your views.

And that’s it !

Your API is now fully compatible with Datatables and will provide searching, filtering, ordering and pagination without any modification of your API code ! For using Datatables editor you should use DatatablesEditorModelViewSet instead ModelViewSet or add EditorModelMixin to your views.

Configuring Datatables and Datatables editor

  • The URL for connecting datatables is the URL of your view with ?format=datatables

  • The URL connecting datatables editor is the URL of your view with editor/

  • Full documentation will be available soon.

  • Also you’ll need download Datatables editor.

Example of HTML code:

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Rolling Stone Top 500 albums of all time</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/4.1.3/css/bootstrap.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.19/css/dataTables.bootstrap4.min.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.datatables.net/buttons/1.5.6/css/buttons.bootstrap4.min.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.datatables.net/select/1.3.0/css/select.bootstrap4.min.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/css/editor.bootstrap4.min.css">
</head>
<body>
    <div class="container" style="font-size: .9em;">
        <div class="row">
            <div class="col-sm-12">
                <table id="albums" class="table table-striped table-bordered" style="width:100%">
                    <thead>
                    <tr>
                        <th>Rank</th>
                        <th>Artist</th>
                        <th>Album name</th>
                        <th>Year</th>
                        <th>Genres</th>
                    </tr>
                    </thead>
                </table>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
    <script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.js"></script>
    <script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/4.1.3/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.19/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.19/js/dataTables.bootstrap4.min.js"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/buttons/1.5.6/js/dataTables.buttons.min.js"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/buttons/1.5.6/js/buttons.bootstrap4.min.js"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/select/1.3.0/js/dataTables.select.min.js"></script>
    <script src="/static/js/dataTables.editor.js"></script>
    <script src="/static/js/editor.bootstrap4.min.js"></script>
    <script>
        $(document).ready(function () {
            editor = new $.fn.dataTable.Editor({
                ajax: "/api/albums/editor/?format=datatables",
                table: "#albums",
                fields: [{
                    label: "rank",
                    name: "rank",
                }, {
                    label: "artist:",
                    name: "artist.id",
                    type: "select"
                }, {
                    label: "name:",
                    name: "name",
                }, {
                    label: "year:",
                    name: "year",
                }]
            });
            var table = $('#albums').DataTable({
                "serverSide": true,
                dom: "Bfrtip",
                "ajax": "/api/albums/?format=datatables",
                "columns": [
                    {"data": "rank", "searchable": false},
                    {"data": "artist.name", "name": "artist.name"},
                    {"data": "name"},
                    {"data": "year"},
                    {"data": "genres", "name": "genres.name", "sortable": false},
                ],
                select: true,
                buttons: [
                    {extend: "create", editor: editor},
                    {extend: "edit", editor: editor},
                    {extend: "remove", editor: editor}
                ]
            });
            table.buttons().container()
                .appendTo($('.col-md-6:eq(0)', table.table().container()));
        });
    </script>
</body>
</html>

Thanks

The project is based on the project django-rest-framework-datatables by David Jean Louis

Requirements

  • Python (2.7, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6)

  • Django (1.11, 2.0, 2.1)

  • Django REST Framework (3.9)

Example project

To play with the example project, just clone the repository and run the dev server.

$ git clone https://github.com/VVyacheslav/DRF-datatables-editor.git
$ cd django-rest-framework-datatables-editor
$ pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
$ python example/manage.py runserver
$ firefox http://127.0.0.1:8000

Testing

Install development requirements.

$ pip install -r requirements-dev.txt

Run the tests.

$ python example/manage.py test

You can also use the excellent tox testing tool to run the tests against all supported versions of Python and Django. Install tox globally, and then simply run:

$ tox

If you want to check the coverage, use:

$ coverage run ./example/manage.py test
$ coverage report -m

Changelog

Version 0.2.1 (2019-04-29):

  • Added documentation

Version 0.2.0 (2019-04-20):

  • Added tests for editor functionality

Version 0.1.0 (2019-04-15):


Version 0.5.0 (2019-03-31):

The changelog bellow is the changelog of django-rest-framework-datatables by David Jean Louis)

  • Fixed total number of rows when view is using multiple filter back-ends

  • New meta option datatables_extra_json on view for adding key/value pairs to rendered JSON

  • Minor docs fixes

Version 0.4.1 (2018-11-16):

  • Added support for Django 2.1 and DRF 3.9

  • Updated README

Version 0.4.0 (2018-06-22):

  • Added top level filtering for nested serializers

  • Added multiple field filtering

  • Added a ?keep= parameter that allows to bypass the filtering of unused fields

  • Better detection of the requested format

  • Fixed typo in Queryset.count() method name

Version 0.3.0 (2018-05-11):

  • Added a serializer Meta option datatables_always_serialize that allows to specify a tuple of fields that should always be serialized in the response, regardless of what fields are requested in the Datatables request

  • Optimize filters

  • Use AND operator for column filtering instead of OR, to be consistant with the client-side behavior of Datatables

Version 0.2.1 (2018-04-11):

  • This version replaces the 0.2.0 who was broken (bad setup.py)

Version 0.2.0 (2018-04-11):

  • Added full documentation

  • Removed serializers, they are no longer necessary, filtering of columns is made by the renderer

Version 0.1.0 (2018-04-10):

Initial release.

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