About

django-mongonaut is an introspective interface for working with MongoDB via mongoengine. Rather then attempt to staple this functionality into Django’s Admin interface, django-mongonaut takes the approach of rolling a new framework from scratch.

By writing it from scratch I get to avoid trying to staple ORM functionality on top of MongoDB, a NoSQL key/value binary-tree store.

Features

• Automatic introspection of mongoengine documents.

• Ability to constrain who sees what and can do what.

• Full control to add, edit, and delete documents

• More awesome stuff! See http://django-mongonaut.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html#features

Installation

Made as easy as possible, setup is actually easier than django.contrib.admin. Furthermore, the only dependencies are mongoengine and pymongo. Eventually django-mongonaut will be able to support installations without mongoengine.

Get MongoDB:

Download the right version per http://www.mongodb.org/downloads

Get mongoengine (and pymongo):

pip install mongoengine=>0.5.2

Get the code:

pip install django-mongonaut==0.2.20

Install the dependency in your settings.py:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
...
'mongonaut',
...
)

You will need the following also set up:

• django.contrib.sessions

• django.contrib.messages

Add the mongonaut urls.py file to your urlconf file:

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    ...
    (r'^mongonaut/', include('mongonaut.urls')),
    ...
)

Configuration

django-mongonaut will let you duplicate much of what django.contrib.admin gives you, but in a way more suited for MongoDB. Still being implemented, but already works better than any other MongoDB solution for Django. A simple example:

# myapp/mongoadmin.py

# Import the MongoAdmin base class
from mongonaut.sites import MongoAdmin

# Import your custom models
from blog.models import Post

# Instantiate the MongoAdmin class
# Then attach the mongoadmin to your model
Post.mongoadmin = MongoAdmin()

• http://django-mongonaut.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api.html

Documentation

All the documentation for this project is hosted at http://django-mongonaut.rtfd.org.

Dependencies

• mongoengine >=0.5.2

• pymongo (comes with mongoengine)

• sphinx (optional - for documentation generation)

Support this project!

You can hire the lead maintainer to perform dedicated work on this package. Please email pydanny@cartwheelweb.com.