django-extra-settings

config and manage typed extra settings using just the django admin.

Installation

• Run pip install django-extra-settings
• Add extra_settings to settings.INSTALLED_APPS
• Run python manage.py migrate
• Run python manage.py collectstatic
• Restart your application server

Usage

Admin

Just go to the admin where you can:

• Create a new setting
• Update an existing setting
• Delete an existing setting

Settings

All these settings are optional, if not defined in settings.py the default values (listed below) will be used.

# the name of the cache to use, if not found the "default" cache will be used.
EXTRA_SETTINGS_CACHE_NAME = "extra_settings"

# a list of settings that will be available by default, each item must contain "name", "type" and "value".
# check the #types section to see all the supported settings types.
EXTRA_SETTINGS_DEFAULTS = [
    {
        "name": "SETTING_NAME",
        "type": "string",
        "value": "Hello World",
    },
    # ...
]

# if True, settings names will be forced to honor the standard django settings format
EXTRA_SETTINGS_ENFORCE_UPPERCASE_SETTINGS = True

# if True, the template tag will fallback to django.conf.settings,
# very useful to retrieve conf settings such as DEBUG.
EXTRA_SETTINGS_FALLBACK_TO_CONF_SETTINGS = True

# the upload_to path value of settings of type 'file'
EXTRA_SETTINGS_FILE_UPLOAD_TO = "files"

# the upload_to path value of settings of type 'image'
EXTRA_SETTINGS_IMAGE_UPLOAD_TO = "images"

# if True, settings name prefix list filter will be shown in the admin changelist
EXTRA_SETTINGS_SHOW_NAME_PREFIX_LIST_FILTER = False

# if True, settings type list filter will be shown in the admin changelist
EXTRA_SETTINGS_SHOW_TYPE_LIST_FILTER = False

# the package name displayed in the admin
EXTRA_SETTINGS_VERBOSE_NAME = "Settings"

Caching

You can customise the app caching options using settings.CACHES["extra_settings"] setting, otherwise the "default" cache will be used:

CACHES = {
    # ...
    "extra_settings": {
        "BACKEND": "django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache",
        "TIMEOUT": 60,
    },
    # ...
}

By default the "extra_settings" cache is used, if you want to use another cache you can set it using the EXTRA_SETTINGS_CACHE_NAME setting.

Python

You can create, read, update and delete settings programmatically:

Types

This is the list of the currently supported setting types you may need to use:

• Setting.TYPE_BOOL
• Setting.TYPE_DATE
• Setting.TYPE_DATETIME
• Setting.TYPE_DECIMAL
• Setting.TYPE_DURATION
• Setting.TYPE_EMAIL
• Setting.TYPE_FILE
• Setting.TYPE_FLOAT
• Setting.TYPE_IMAGE
• Setting.TYPE_INT
• Setting.TYPE_JSON
• Setting.TYPE_STRING
• Setting.TYPE_TEXT
• Setting.TYPE_TIME
• Setting.TYPE_URL

Create

from extra_settings.models import Setting

setting_obj = Setting(
    name="SETTING_NAME",
    value_type=Setting.TYPE_STRING,
    value="django-extra-settings",
)
setting_obj.save()

Read

from extra_settings.models import Setting

value = Setting.get("SETTING_NAME", default="django-extra-settings")

Update

from extra_settings.models import Setting

setting_obj = Setting(
    name="SETTING_NAME",
    value_type=Setting.TYPE_BOOL,
    value=True,
)
setting_obj.value = False
setting_obj.save()

Delete

from extra_settings.models import Setting

Setting.objects.filter(name="SETTING_NAME").delete()

Templates

You can retrieve settings in templates:

{% load extra_settings %}

{% get_setting 'SETTING_NAME' default='django-extra-settings' %}

Tests

You can override specific settings during tests using extra_settings.test.override_settings.

It can be used both as decorator and as context-manager:

from extra_settings.test import override_settings

# decorator
@override_settings(SETTING_NAME_1="value for testing 1", SETTING_NAME_2="value for testing 2")
def test_with_custom_settings(self):
    pass

# context manager
def test_with_custom_settings(self):
    with override_settings(SETTING_NAME_1="value for testing 1", SETTING_NAME_2="value for testing 2"):
        pass

Testing

# clone repository
git clone https://github.com/fabiocaccamo/django-extra-settings.git && cd django-extra-settings

# create virtualenv and activate it
python -m venv venv && . venv/bin/activate

# upgrade pip
python -m pip install --upgrade pip

# install requirements
pip install -r requirements.txt -r requirements-test.txt

# run tests
tox
# or
python setup.py test
# or
python -m django test --settings "tests.settings"

License

Released under MIT License.

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See also

• django-admin-interface - the default admin interface made customizable by the admin itself. popup windows replaced by modals. 🧙 ⚡

• django-colorfield - simple color field for models with a nice color-picker in the admin. 🎨

• django-maintenance-mode - shows a 503 error page when maintenance-mode is on. 🚧 🛠️

• django-redirects - redirects with full control. ↪️

• django-treenode - probably the best abstract model / admin for your tree based stuff. 🌳

• python-benedict - dict subclass with keylist/keypath support, I/O shortcuts (base64, csv, json, pickle, plist, query-string, toml, xml, yaml) and many utilities. 📘

• python-codicefiscale - encode/decode Italian fiscal codes - codifica/decodifica del Codice Fiscale. 🇮🇹 💳

• python-fontbro - friendly font operations. 🧢

• python-fsutil - file-system utilities for lazy devs. 🧟‍♂️