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Databrowse
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==========
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Databrowse is a Django application that lets you browse your data.
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As the Django admin dynamically creates an admin interface by introspecting
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your models, Databrowse dynamically creates a rich, browsable Web site by
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introspecting your models.
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.. admonition:: Note
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Databrowse is **very** new and is currently under active development. It
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may change substantially before the next Django release.
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With that said, it's easy to use, and it doesn't require writing any
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code. So you can play around with it today, with very little investment in
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time or coding.
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How to use Databrowse
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=====================
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1. Point Django at the default Databrowse templates. There are two ways to
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do this:
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* Add ``'django.contrib.databrowse'`` to your ``INSTALLED_APPS``
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setting. This will work if your ``TEMPLATE_LOADERS`` setting includes
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the ``app_directories`` template loader (which is the case by
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default). See the `template loader docs`_ for more.
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* Otherwise, determine the full filesystem path to the
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``django/contrib/databrowse/templates`` directory, and add that
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directory to your ``TEMPLATE_DIRS`` setting.
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2. Register a number of models with the Databrowse site::
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from django.contrib import databrowse
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from myapp.models import SomeModel, SomeOtherModel
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databrowse.site.register(SomeModel)
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databrowse.site.register(SomeOtherModel)
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Note that you should register the model *classes*, not instances.
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It doesn't matter where you put this, as long as it gets executed at
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some point. A good place for it is in your URLconf file (``urls.py``).
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3. Change your URLconf to import the ``databrowse`` module::
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from django.contrib import databrowse
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...and add the following line to your URLconf::
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(r'^databrowse/(.*)', databrowse.site.root),
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The prefix doesn't matter -- you can use ``databrowse/`` or ``db/`` or
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whatever you'd like.
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4. Run the Django server and visit ``/databrowse/`` in your browser.
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Requiring user login
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====================
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You can restrict access to logged-in users with only a few extra lines of
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code. Simply add the following import to your URLconf::
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from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
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Then modify the URLconf so that the ``databrowse.site.root`` view is decorated
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with ``login_required``::
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(r'^databrowse/(.*)', login_required(databrowse.site.root)),
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If you haven't already added support for user logins to your URLconf, as
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described in the `user authentication docs`_, then you will need to do so
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now with the following mapping::
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(r'^accounts/login/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.login'),
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The final step is to create the login form required by
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``django.contrib.auth.views.login``. The `user authentication docs`_
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provide full details and a sample template that can be used for this
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purpose.
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.. _template loader docs: ../templates_python/#loader-types
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.. _user authentication docs: ../authentication/
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