djqgrid 0.2

A Django wrapper for jqGrid

djqgrid is a Django wrapper for jqGrid.

djqgrid lets you define grids in a Django-familiar way, while taking care of most of the mundane Python-JavaScript bridge for you.

Quick Example

Add djqgrid to your project

1. Install with pip install djqgrid

2. Add djqgrid to your INSTALLED_APPS.

3. Reference the jqGrid and jQueryUI JavaScript and CSS files

4. Reference the script at {% static "js/djqgrid_utils.js" %}

5. Add the djqgrid URLs to urls.py:

   urlpatterns += patterns('', url(r^'grid_json/', include (djqgrid.urls))

Define your model

class MyModel(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=40)
    desc = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    url = models.URLField()
    height = models.IntField()

Define your grid

class MyGrid(Grid):
    model = MyModel

    name = TextColumn(title='Name', model_path='name')
    height = TextColumn(title='Height', model_path='height', align='right')
    desc = LinkColumn(title='Description', model_path='desc', url_builder=lambda m: m.url)

What we have here is a grid associated with MyModel objects - each grid row represents one object. The grid has three columns:

1. Name - a basic column containing model.name

2. Height - containing model.height, but right aligned

3. Description - containing a link - its text will be model.desc and the URL will be model.url

One thing to note is align='right' - this property is passed directly to jqGrid in the column’s colModel. Any property can be passed to jqGrid this way. For example TextColumn(title=..., model_path=..., editable=true) creates an editable column.

Add the grid to your view and template

The view:

define myview(request):
    grid = MyGrid()
    return render(request, 'my_template.html', { grid: grid })

The template:

{% load djqgrid %}

<div id="grid-div">
    {% jqgrid grid %}
</div>

Now run the view. You should see a very nice grid that supports paging and sorting.