HappyCoder

There’s a new django.contrib add-on called databrowse. From the documentaion,

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.

You need to:

1. Add ‘django.contrib.databrowse’ to your INSTALLED_APPS setting.

You don’t need to run syncdb.

2. Register models on the Databrowse site.

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from django.contrib import databrowse

databrowse.site.register(SomeModel)
databrowse.site.register(SomeOtherModel)

You can put this on urls.py.

3. Add to your URLConf

(r'^databrowse/(.*)', databrowse.site.root),

Test databroswe by going to /databrowse.

Here’s a screenshot:

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Named URL patterns have been added to Django recently but the documentation isn’t complete yet.

In urls.py, use url()

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urlpatterns = patterns('', 
    url(r'^$', index, name="app_index"),

On the templates, use url()

<a href="{% url app_index %}">Home</a>

On the views, use django.core.urlresolvers.reverse()

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from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
def some_method(request):
  return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('app_index'))