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.

# 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 type list filter will be shown in the admin changelist
EXTRA_SETTINGS_SHOW_TYPE_LIST_FILTER = False

Admin

Just go to the admin where you can:

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

Python

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

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()

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

Templates

You can retrieve settings in templates:

{% load extra_settings %}

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

Testing

# create python virtual environment
virtualenv testing_django_extra_settings

# activate virtualenv
cd testing_django_extra_settings && . bin/activate

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

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

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• 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. 🧟‍♂️