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- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/beachmachine/django-changeset
- Owner: beachmachine
- License: bsd-3-clause
- Created: 2016-04-15T11:59:51.000Z (about 10 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2021-11-12T10:39:53.000Z (over 4 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-09-29T02:27:39.956Z (9 months ago)
- Topics: hacktoberfest
- Language: Python
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- Size: 121 KB
- Stars: 5
- Watchers: 4
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 2
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# Django ChangeSet
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[](https://codecov.io/gh/beachmachine/django-changeset)
Django ChangeSet is a simple Django app that will give your models the possibility to track all changes. It depends on
`django_userforeignkey` to determine the current user doing the change(s).
Supported Python versions: 3.10 - 3.14.
Supported Django versions: 5.2 and 6.0.
Detailed documentation is in the docs subdirectory.
## Quick start
1. Use `pip` to install and download django-changeset (and `django-userforeignkey`):
```bash
pip install django-changeset
```
2. Add `django_userforeignkey` and `django_changeset` to your `INSTALLED_APPS` like this:
```python
INSTALLED_APPS = [
...
'django_userforeignkey',
'django_changeset',
]
```
3. Add `django_userforeignkey.middleware.UserForeignKeyMiddleware` to your `MIDDLEWARE` like this:
```python
MIDDLEWARE = (
...
'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
...
'django_userforeignkey.middleware.UserForeignKeyMiddleware',
)
```
**Note**: Make sure to insert the `UserForeignKeyMiddleware` **after** Djangos `AuthenticationMiddleware`.
## Example usage
**_Use `RevisionModelMixin` as a mixin class for your models and add the fields you want to track in the meta_**
configuration using `track_fields` and `track_related`. Also add a generic relation to `ChangeSet` using
`changesets = ChangeSetRelation()`:
```python
from django.db import models
from django_changeset.models import RevisionModelMixin
from django_changeset.models.fields import ChangeSetRelation
class MyModel(models.Model, RevisionModelMixin):
class Meta:
track_fields = ('my_data', ) # track changes on my_data
track_related = ('my_ref', ) # track changes on a related model
my_data = models.CharField(max_length=64, verbose_name="Very important data you want to track")
my_ref = models.ForeignKey('SomeOtherModel', verbose_name="Very important relation", related_name='my_models')
# Generic Relation to ChangeSet
changesets = ChangeSetRelation()
```
Note: If you want to have access to the properties `created_by`, `created_at`, `last_modified_by`, `last_modified_at`,
you need to inherit from `CreatedModifiedByMixin` aswell as `RevisionModelMixin`. For the Python MRO to work, you also
have to create an abstract base model:
```python
from django.db import models
from django_changeset.models import CreatedModifiedByMixin, RevisionModelMixin
from django_changeset.models.fields import ChangeSetRelation
class BaseModel(models.Model):
"""
BaseModel is needed for proper MRO within Python/Django Models
"""
class Meta:
abstract = True
pass
class MyModel(BaseModel, RevisionModelMixin, CreatedModifiedByMixin):
class Meta:
track_fields = ('my_data', ) # track changes on my_data
track_related = ('my_ref', ) # track changes on a related model
my_data = models.CharField(max_length=64, verbose_name="Very important data you want to track")
my_ref = models.ForeignKey('SomeOtherModel', verbose_name="Very important relation", related_name='my_models')
# Generic Relation to ChangeSet
changesets = ChangeSetRelation()
```
## Querying ChangeSets via the changesets relation
By inheriting from the `RevisionModelMixin` and `CreatedModifiedByMixin` mixins, and adding an attribute of type
`ChangeSetRelation` (a `GenericRelation` for the changeset), the following features are added to your model:
- Properties `created_by`, `created_at`, `last_modified_by`, `last_modified_at` are made available for each object
(`CreatedModifiedByMixin`)
- Relation `changesets` is made available, allowing you to run queries like this one:
`MyModel.objects.filter(changesets__changeset_type='I', changesets__user__username='johndoe')`
## Access ChangeSets and ChangeRecords
ToDo
You can access the changeset by calling the `change_set` property of an instance of `MyModel` as shown in the following
example:
```python
print("------- CHANGE SETS (", len(somemodel.changesets), ")---------")
for change_set in somemodel.changesets:
# print change_set
print("Change was carried out at ", change_set.date, " by user ", change_set.user, " on model ", change_set.object_type)
print(" + CHANGE RECORDS (", len(change_set.change_records.all()), "): ")
for change_record in change_set.change_records.all():
print("\t", change_record)
print("\tIs change on a related field?", change_record.is_related)
# related fields: we only know that something new has been added. we know the PK, but not the object itself
print("\t\tChanged field ", change_record.field_name, "(", change_record.field_verbose_name, ") from ",
change_record.old_value, "(display:", change_record.old_value_display, ") to")
print("\t\t ", change_record.new_value, "(display:", change_record.new_value_display, ")")
if change_record.is_related:
print("\t\tRelated Object Info: ", change_record.related_object)
# TODO:
# change_set.created_at, change_set.created_by, change_set.last_modified_by, change_set.last_modified_at
print("-----")
```
## Maintainers
This repository is currently maintained by
- beachmachine
- mikelandzelo173
Pull Requests are welcome.
## License
Django ChangeSet uses the BSD-3 Clause License, see LICENSE file.