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Databrowse
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.. module:: django.contrib.databrowse
:synopsis: Databrowse is a Django application that lets you browse your data.
.. deprecated:: 1.4
This module has been deprecated.
Databrowse is a Django application that lets you browse your data.
As the Django admin dynamically creates an admin interface by introspecting
your models, Databrowse dynamically creates a rich, browsable Web site by
introspecting your models.
How to use Databrowse
=====================
1. Point Django at the default Databrowse templates. There are two ways to
do this:
* Add ``'django.contrib.databrowse'`` to your :setting:`INSTALLED_APPS`
setting. This will work if your :setting:`TEMPLATE_LOADERS` setting
includes the ``app_directories`` template loader (which is the case by
default). See the :ref:`template loader docs <template-loaders>` for
more.
* Otherwise, determine the full filesystem path to the
:file:`django/contrib/databrowse/templates` directory, and add that
directory to your :setting:`TEMPLATE_DIRS` setting.
2. Register a number of models with the Databrowse site::
from django.contrib import databrowse
from myapp.models import SomeModel, SomeOtherModel, YetAnotherModel
databrowse.site.register(SomeModel)
databrowse.site.register(SomeOtherModel, YetAnotherModel)
Note that you should register the model *classes*, not instances.
.. versionchanged:: 1.4
Since Django 1.4, it is possible to register several models in the same
call to ``databrowse.site.register()``.
It doesn't matter where you put this, as long as it gets executed at some
point. A good place for it is in your :doc:`URLconf file
</topics/http/urls>` (``urls.py``).
3. Change your URLconf to import the :mod:`~django.contrib.databrowse` module::
from django.contrib import databrowse
...and add the following line to your URLconf::
(r'^databrowse/(.*)', databrowse.site.root),
The prefix doesn't matter -- you can use ``databrowse/`` or ``db/`` or
whatever you'd like.
4. Run the Django server and visit ``/databrowse/`` in your browser.
Requiring user login
====================
You can restrict access to logged-in users with only a few extra lines of
code. Simply add the following import to your URLconf::
from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
Then modify the :doc:`URLconf </topics/http/urls>` so that the
``databrowse.site.root()`` view is decorated with
:func:`django.contrib.auth.decorators.login_required`::
(r'^databrowse/(.*)', login_required(databrowse.site.root)),
If you haven't already added support for user logins to your :doc:`URLconf
</topics/http/urls>`, as described in the :doc:`user authentication docs
</ref/contrib/auth>`, then you will need to do so now with the following
mapping::
(r'^accounts/login/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.login'),
The final step is to create the login form required by
:func:`django.contrib.auth.views.login`. The
:doc:`user authentication docs </ref/contrib/auth>` provide full details and a
sample template that can be used for this purpose.