djcommon 1.1.1

Features

Currently, the following features have been gathered and are working in Django 1.3+

models

• TimeStampedModel (adds date_created and date_modified)

fields

• MultiSelectField (for selecting multiple choices=)

views

• server_error (500 error handler with RequestContext)

admin

• EnhancedModelAdmin (keeping filter states after edits)

• EnhancedInline (implements VerboseManyToManyRawIdWidget on m2m fields when name in raw_id_fields)

middleware

• SSLMiddleware

• RestrictedAccessMiddleware

• StripWhitespaceMiddleware

helpers

• get_setting (shortcut for getattr(settings, ‘SITE_ID’))

• uniqify_list

• contains

auth

• EmailBackend (authenticate user by email address or username)

forms

• EnhancedForm

• EnhancedModelForm (combined_fields)

widgets

• DiggPaginatorWidget

• admin.VerboseManyToManyRawIdWidget

template

• get_available_templates

• get_template_choices

• CachedNode

• ContextUpdatingNode

• CachedContextUpdatingNode

templatetags

• common

  • filters: cleartags, cut, replace, nowhitespace, cleanwhitespace, startswith, endswith

• development

  • filters: attributes, attributes_formatted, getattribute

templates

• forms/as_div.html

email

• send_email_with_template (including an handy directory structure for templates)

pdf

• content_to_pdf

• content_to_response

• render_to_pdf

xml

• fast_iter

TODO

admin

• EnhancedInline with Nested inline function

If you have ideas for other features please let me know.

Installation

1. pip install djcommon

2. Add djcommon to your INSTALLED_APPS if you want to use templates and templatetags

TODOs and BUGS

See: http://github.com/baskoopmans/djcommon/issues