sharing-configs 0.1.2

Django admin package to interact with Sharing Configs API

Sharing Configs for Django

Version:

0.1.2

Source:

https://github.com/maykinmedia/sharing-configs

Keywords:

django, github

PythonVersion:

3.7, 3.8, 3.9

A reusable Django app to export and import resources using Sharing Configs API.

Developed by Maykin Media B.V..

Features

• provides client to interact with Sharing Configs API

• easy download and upload of resources in the Django admin

Installation

1. Install from PyPI

pip install sharing-configs

2. Add sharing_configs to the INSTALLED_APPS setting.

3. In the admin page of SharingConfigsConfig configure access to the Sharing Configs API

Usage

The Sharing Config Library provides two mixins to add into your ModelAdmin class to enable the import/export of objects through the Django admin:

• SharingConfigsImportMixin - to import objects

• SharingConfigsExportMixin - to export objects

• SharingConfigsMixin - to import and export objects

The mixins provide custom admin views and request Sharing Configs API under the hood. You will need to override the get_sharing_configs_import_data and get_sharing_configs_export_data functions and implement your own import/export behaviour.

You can furthermore override the import/export forms that are used by overriding the class variables sharing_configs_export_form and sharing_configs_import_form.

from sharing_configs.admin import SharingConfigsMixin

class SomeObjectAdmin(SharingConfigsMixin, admin.ModelAdmin):

    sharing_configs_export_form = SomeObjectExportForm  # Defaults to sharing_configs.forms.ExportToForm
    sharing_configs_import_form = SomeObjectImportForm  # Defaults to sharing_configs.forms.ImportForm

    def get_sharing_configs_export_data(self, obj: object) -> bytes:
        """
        Convert ``SomeObject`` to JSON or something.
        """
        # Your code...

    def get_sharing_configs_import_data(self, content: bytes) -> object:
        """
        Convert JSON (or whatever was exported by function above) to
        ``SomeObject``.
        """
        # Your code...

Example

We can use the Sharing Configs library to exchange color-themes for the Django admin with other users. For this, we need a model that stores the color-theme, and use the Sharing Configs mixins to import and export the color-theme.

Create two models: Configuration and Theme

# models.py

from django.db import models
from solo.models import SingletonModel


class Configuration(SingletonModel):
    """Configuration that holds the current theme"""

    theme = models.ForeignKey("Theme", on_delete=models.SET_NULL, null=True, blank=True)


class Theme(models.Model):
    """All attributes used for theming."""

    name = models.CharField("name", max_length=100)
    primary = models.CharField("primary color", max_length=7)
    secondary = models.CharField("secondary color", max_length=7)
    accent = models.CharField("accent color", max_length=7)
    primary_fg = models.CharField("primary foreground color", max_length=7)

Register the Theme model in the admin and include our two mixins to introduce the UI to import and export objects, in this case, themes. Sharing Configs does not know how to import or export your model, so you will need to write this yourself. You can override the methods introduced by the mixins: get_sharing_configs_export_data and get_sharing_configs_import_data

# admin.py

import json

from django.contrib import admin
from django.forms.models import model_to_dict
from django.shortcuts import get_object_or_404

from sharing_configs.admin import SharingConfigsMixin

from .models import Configuration, Theme


class ThemeAdmin(SharingConfigsMixin, admin.ModelAdmin):

    def get_sharing_configs_export_data(self, obj: object) -> bytes:
        """Convert the theme to JSON."""
        theme = get_object_or_404(Theme, id=obj.id)
        theme_dict = model_to_dict(theme)
        theme_dict.pop("id", None)
        dump_json_theme = json.dumps(cleaned_theme_dict, sort_keys=True, default=str)
        return dump_json_theme.encode("utf-8")

    def get_sharing_configs_import_data(self, content: bytes) -> object:
        """
        Convert JSON to a new theme instance. Typically, the JSON that is
        read here is the same as that the JSON generated by the above
        function.
        """
        decoded_content = content.decode("utf-8")
        theme_dict = json.loads(decoded_content)
        return ColorTheme.objects.create(**theme_dict)

That takes care of the import and export functionality for exchaning color-themes. To make it actually working, we complete this example with some additional code. Create a context_processors.py file, to pass the currently configured theme to the template context:

def theme(request:object)->dict:
    """
    Create a dictionary of color variables to pass to the base_site.html Django admin page
    """
    conf = Configuration.get_solo()

    return {
        "theme": conf.theme
    }

Finally, pass the theme context variables to an overriden base_site.html in the templates folder.

{# admin/base_site.html #}
{% extends "admin/base_site.html" %}

{% block extrastyle %}
    {% if theme %}
        <style type="text/css">
            :root {
                --primary: {{ theme.primary }};
                --secondary:{{ theme.secondary }};
                --accent:{{ theme.accent }};
                --primary_fg:{{ theme.primary_fg }};
            }
        </style>
    {% endif %}
{% endblock %}

Now you can choose an available color-theme via the configuration inside the Django admin. Ofcourse, this will really shine when you configure a proper Sharing Configs API to exchange themes with eachother!