django-admin2

Warning: This project is currently in an alpha state and currently not meant for real projects.

One of the most useful parts of django.contrib.admin is the ability to configure various views that touch and alter data. django-admin2 is a complete rewrite of that library using modern Class-Based Views and enjoying a design focused on extendibility and adaptability. By starting over, we can avoid the legacy code and make it easier to write extensions and themes.

Contributing

Yes please! Please read our formal contributing document at: https://django-admin2.readthedocs.org/en/latest/contributing.html

Features

• Easy-to-extend API that follows similar patterns to django.contrib.admin.
• Built-in RESTFUL API powered by django-rest-framework.
• Default theme built on Twitter Bootstrap that is just starting to act like the current Django admin.
• Easy to implement theme system.
• Permission controls
• Custom actions
• Add/Change form inlines
• i18n

Requirements

• Django 1.5+
• Python 2.7+ or Python 3.3+
• django-braces
• django-extra-views
• django-floppyforms
• django-rest-framework
• Sphinx (for documentation)

Basic Pattern

Our goal is to make this API work:

# myapp/admin2.py
# Import your custom models
from .models import Post, Comment
from django.contrib.auth.forms import UserCreationForm, UserChangeForm
from django.contrib.auth.models import User

import djadmin2


class UserAdmin2(djadmin2.ModelAdmin2):
    create_form_class = UserCreationForm
    update_form_class = UserChangeForm


#  Register each model with the admin
djadmin2.default.register(Post)
djadmin2.default.register(Comment)
djadmin2.default.register(User, UserAdmin2)

Themes

The default theme is whatever bootstrap is most current. Specifically:

ADMIN2_THEME_DIRECTORY = "admin2/bootstrap/"

If you create a new theme, please define it thus:

ADMIN2_THEME_DIRECTORY = "admin2/foundation/"

History

0.3.0 (2013-05-31)

• HTML5 forms via floppyforms.
• Many API improvements.
• Added Breadcrumbs.
• Added Login, Logout, ChangePassword views.
• Added Actions.
• Added support for inlines.
• Added view based permission controls
• Implement delete confirmations for child models.
• Testrunner now can run on a specific test set or module.
• Internal code refactoring to follow standards.
• Moved to git-flow for accepting pull requests.
• Model create/update pages now have save options.
• Added i18n to all templates, much of internal code.
• All print statements replaced with proper logging.
• Design goals specified in the documentation.

0.2.0 (2013-05-19)

• Birth! (Working Prototype)
• Easy-to-extend API that follows similar patterns to django.contrib.admin.
• Built-in RESTFUL API powered by django-rest-framework.
• Default theme built on Twitter Bootstrap.
• Easy to implement theme system.
• Basic permission controls.
• Testrunner
• Documentation

0.1.1 (2013-05-17)

• Code adoption from django-mongonaut.
• Preperation for Django Circus sprints.

0.1 (2013-05-13)

• Discussion with Russell Keith-Magee.
• Inception.