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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.

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.

.. admonition:: Note

    Databrowse is **very** new and is currently under active development. It

    may change substantially before the next Django release.

    With that said, it's easy to use, and it doesn't require writing any

    code. So you can play around with it today, with very little investment in

    time or coding.

How to use Databrowse

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    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

           databrowse.site.register(SomeModel)

           databrowse.site.register(SomeOtherModel)

       Note that you should register the model *classes*, not instances.

       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

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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

:func:`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.