drf-history 0.0.2

A simple Django app to track create,update and delete actions.

DRF-HISTORY

drf-history is a simple django rest framework app to track actions performed in a django app. The actions being tracked are POST, DELETE, PUT and PATCH

Data being captured is

Data	Description
user	The current loggedin user making the request
request data(body)	Data being sent (POST, PATCH and PUT)
response data	response data after the request is complete
table_name	name of the model the request is affecting
instance_id	The id of the created, updated or deleted model instance
method	The request method i.e POST, DELETE, PUT or PATCH
created_at	Date time object for when the request is being carried out

Quick start

1. Add track_actions to your INSTALLED_APPS setting

    INSTALLED_APPS = [
        ...,
        'track_actions',
    ]
   

2. Add track_actions.requestMiddleware.RequestMiddleware in settings under middlewares

    MIDDLEWARE = [
        ... ,
        'track_actions.requestMiddleware.RequestMiddleware',
    ]
   

3. Run python manage.py migrate track_actions to create the History model.

To access the get history endpoint

In your project's url file

1. import track_actions in your projects urls file

2. Register the url in the urlpattern path('track_actions/', include('track_actions.urls'))

3. visit the url in the browser or on postman http://127.0.0.1:8000/track_actions/history/ you should be able to see all the recorded history if you have admin priveleges and you are authenticated.

Alternatively You can create your own endpoint to view all history from the History model by importing it in your views or serializers. from track_actions.models import History

NOTE

This package will only work if you have a user in a request and a user model in your database.