pidalu-core 0.1.2

Pidalu Tech - Resusable core models, serializers and middlewares

pidalu-core

Reusable Django core utilities and base components for Django and Django REST Framework projects.

Includes model mixins, serializer tools, queryset managers, admin helpers, and middleware.
Designed to work out of the box with settings.py overrides.

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🚀 Features

✅ Models & Mixins

• TimeStampedModel – auto created_at, updated_at
• UserTrackerModel – auto created_by, updated_by
• TrackedModel – combo of the above
• SlugFieldModel – auto slug from any source field
• UUIDPrimaryKeyModel – use UUIDs as primary keys
• SoftDeleteModel – soft deletion with manager/queryset support
• AuditModel – tracks and logs field-level changes

🔁 QuerySet & Manager Extensions

• SoftDeleteManager – .only_deleted(), .with_deleted(), .active()
• SoftDeleteQuerySet – compatible with manager above

📦 Serializers

• DynamicFieldsModelSerializer – limit output via fields=[...]
• DynamicFieldsSerializer – same for plain serializers
• DummySerializer – no-op placeholder
• (All located in pidalu_core.serializers)

🛠 Admin Helpers

• ReadOnlyAdminFieldsMixin – make selected fields readonly
• AutoSlugAdminMixin – auto-prepopulate slug in admin from any field

🧠 Middleware

• RequestMiddleware – stores current request in thread-local

  Used to track created_by/updated_by automatically in models

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⚙️ Installation

pip install pidalu-core

Or using Poetry:

poetry add pidalu-core

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🧩 Setup

1. Add Middleware

# settings.py
MIDDLEWARE = [
    "pidalu_core.middleware.RequestMiddleware",  # ✅ Add near top
    ...
]

2. Optional Settings

# settings.py

PIDALU_CORE_AUTO_SLUG_FIELD = "name"  # default source field for slug generation

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🧱 Usage Examples

TrackedModel (timestamps + user)

from pidalu_core.models import TrackedModel

class Post(TrackedModel):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=100)

SlugFieldModel with custom source

class Article(SlugFieldModel):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=255)
    slug_source_field = "title"

SoftDeleteModel with manager

class Project(SoftDeleteModel):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=255)

# Usage:
Project.objects.all()  # active only
Project.objects.only_deleted()
Project.objects.with_deleted()

DynamicFieldsModelSerializer

class UserSerializer(DynamicFieldsModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = User
        fields = ["id", "username", "email"]

# usage: UserSerializer(user, fields=["id", "email"])

request object is a cached property in Dynamic serializers, you can access request object directly without going through context.

class UserSerializer(DynamicFieldsModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = User
        fields = ["id", "username", "email"]

    def get_fields(self):
        fields = super().get_fields()
        if self.request.method.lower() == 'get': # directly access request object
            fields["details"] = UserDetailSerializer(
            fields=["address", "bio"])
        return fields

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🧪 Testing

Use Makefile> test.

Setup

make test

Or directly with Poetry, uses pytest and pytest-django under the hood:

PYTHONPATH=. poetry run pytest -vv

We use in-memory SQLite + dynamic schema creation.

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👤 Author

Built and maintained by Pidalu Tech Team.

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🪪 License

MIT License — free to use, modify, and distribute.