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Databrowse
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.. module:: django.contrib.databrowse
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:synopsis: Databrowse is a Django application that lets you browse your data.
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.. deprecated:: 1.4
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This module has been deprecated.
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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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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 :setting:`INSTALLED_APPS`
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setting. This will work if your :setting:`TEMPLATE_LOADERS` setting
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includes the ``app_directories`` template loader (which is the case by
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default). See the :ref:`template loader docs <template-loaders>` for
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more.
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* Otherwise, determine the full filesystem path to the
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:file:`django/contrib/databrowse/templates` directory, and add that
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directory to your :setting:`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 some
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point. A good place for it is in your :doc:`URLconf file
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</topics/http/urls>` (``urls.py``).
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3. Change your URLconf to import the :mod:`~django.contrib.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 :doc:`URLconf </topics/http/urls>` so that the
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:func:`databrowse.site.root` view is decorated with
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:func:`django.contrib.auth.decorators.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 :doc:`URLconf
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</topics/http/urls>`, as described in the :doc:`user authentication docs
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</ref/contrib/auth>`, then you will need to do so now with the following
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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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:func:`django.contrib.auth.views.login`. The
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:doc:`user authentication docs </ref/contrib/auth>` provide full details and a
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sample template that can be used for this purpose.
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