stapel-categories

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Category tree with typed features: a hierarchical category tree (django-treenode) and a parallel feature tree whose typed config is validated by stapel-attributes, an ordered category<->feature M2M, feature inheritance, and a feature-editor lifecycle (keep/add/edit/inherit/remove/create/replace) with optimistic-concurrency apply over a category subtree.

Part of the Stapel framework — composable Django apps that deploy as a monolith or as microservices without changing module code.

Install

pip install stapel-categories

At a glance

Fact Value
Version 0.17.0
Python >=3.11 (3.11, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14)
HTTP operations 33
Config axes 1
Usage surface 22
Extension points 4
Error codes 64
Fleet dependencies stapel-attributes · stapel-core

Documentation

OpenAPI · capabilities.json · llms.txt (for agents)

What this is

A hierarchical category tree (django-treenode) and a parallel feature tree whose typed config is validated by stapel-attributes. Categories own the tree structure, feature inheritance, the ordered category↔feature M2M, and the feature-editor lifecycle; the attribute engine (types, config/DTO/DAO validation, polymorphic serializers, admin widgets) lives in stapel-attributes and is imported, never re-implemented.

Quick start

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # ...
    "treenode",            # django-treenode (tree-cache signals)
    "stapel_categories",
]

# urls.py — this module's own urls.py bakes in only `v1/`; the host
# contributes `api/`, giving the canonical `/categories/api/v1/...` prefix
# (exactly what stapel-example-monolith already does for this module).
path("categories/api/", include("stapel_categories.urls"))

stapel-attributes is an imported library (no app to install); its config editor ships static assets, so run collectstatic if you use the admin.

Settings

All configuration lives in the STAPEL_CATEGORIES namespace (dict setting, flat setting, or env var — resolved lazily):

Key Default Meaning
CAROUSEL_CACHE_TIMEOUT 300 Seconds the carousel response is cached.
FEATURE_DISPLAY_CACHE_TIMEOUT 60 Seconds an admin feature display label is memoized.
DISPLAY_TRANSLATOR stapel_categories.translation.identity_translator Dotted path (key)->str for rendering translation keys (default: identity).

comm surface

Kind Name Contract
Function categories.features {"category_id": int} -> {"category_id", "revision", "features":[{id,slug,name,mandatory,config}]} — resolved schema (own + inherited), cacheable by revision
Function categories.path {"category_ids": [int, ...]} -> {"<id>": ["<root_id>", ..., "<id>"]} — root->leaf ancestry, one query for the batch; segments are ids, an unknown id is absent
Action (emit) category.changed {"category_id": int, "revision": int} on any category/feature mutation — for downstream cache invalidation

categories.features lets stapel-listings validate attribute values against a category's schema without importing this module. categories.path is the provider stapel-search declares by canonical name for category rollup — without it a search index degrades to a single path segment and a filter on a parent category finds none of its descendants.

Contract

docs/{schema,flows,errors}.json are emitted from a single-module {categories + core} Django instance mounted at the canonical /categories/api/v1 prefix (make contract / make contract-check; see _codegen.py) — the same mechanism stapel-search, stapel-chat and stapel-forms already use. docs/flows.json is []: no flow is declared via @flow yet, same state as every other contract-complete module today. docs/capabilities.json stays hand-authored (see the Makefile comment); only its surface section is derived.

The ten feature-value shapes (FeatureConfig, FeatureDto) are a proper discriminated oneOf keyed by type, contributed by stapel-attributes and now used consistently everywhere a config or a values-DTO crosses the wire — Feature.config, FeatureBulk.config, the convert-type request body and validate-dto's features field all resolve through it (previously the last three fell back to an untyped JSONField/DictField).

Delta note — one pair of fields stays untyped, and it isn't this module's to fix. FeatureValidationResult.id / .ref_value render as free-form in the schema. Both are defined by stapel-attributes (FeatureValidationResult dataclass + its serializers.JSONField projection in results.py), not by this module: id is Optional[Union[int, str]] and ref_value is Optional[Union[str, int, float, list]] — plain scalar unions with no type discriminator to key a oneOf on, unlike the ten-way config/DTO shapes. Typing them is upstream's serializer to extend, not a gap stapel-categories introduced or can close by itself.

Extension points

See MODULE.md — the agent-facing map of every fork-free seam (settings, serializer seams, comm surface, feature-editor actions, admin-UI pointer to stapel-attributes).

Development

pip install -e . && pip install pytest pytest-django ruff
./setup-hooks.sh
pytest tests/

License

MIT — see LICENSE.

This page is assembled by stapel-readme from docs/readme.md plus the contract artifacts in docs/. Edit the prose in docs/readme.md; the badges, facts and links above and below it are generated — do not hand-edit README.md.

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