django-admin2

Warning: This project is currently in an alpha state and currently not meant for real projects.

One of the most useful parts of django.contrib.admin is the ability to configure various views that touch and alter data. django-admin2 is a complete rewrite of that library using modern Class-Based Views and enjoying a design focused on extendibility and adaptability. By starting over, we can avoid the legacy code and make it easier to write extensions and themes.

Contributing

Yes please! Please read our formal contributing document at: https://django-admin2.readthedocs.org/en/latest/contributing.html

Features (current)

• Easy-to-extend API that follows similar patterns to django.contrib.admin.
• Built-in RESTFUL API powered by django-rest-framework.
• Default theme built on Twitter Bootstrap that is just starting to act like the current Django admin.
• Easy to implement theme system.
• Basic permission controls.

Features (Planned)

• Much improved documentation including tutorials and reference guides.
  • Extending existing views
  • Interacting with the basic Admin2 object.
• Improved permission controls

Requirements

• Django 1.5+
• Python 2.7+ (Python 3.3+ support is pending)
• django-braces
• django-rest-framework
• django-floppyforms
• Sphinx (for documentation)

Basic Pattern

Our goal is to make this API work:

# Import your custom models
from .models import Post, Comment
from django.contrib.auth.forms import UserCreationForm, UserChangeForm
from django.contrib.auth.models import User

import djadmin2
from djadmin2.models import ModelAdmin2


class UserAdmin2(ModelAdmin2):
    create_form_class = UserCreationForm
    update_form_class = UserChangeForm


#  Register each model with the admin
djadmin2.default.register(Post)
djadmin2.default.register(Comment)
djadmin2.default.register(User, UserAdmin2)

Themes

The default theme is whatever bootstrap is most current. Specifically:

ADMIN2_THEME_DIRECTORY = "admin2/bootstrap/"

If you create a new theme, please define it thus:

ADMIN2_THEME_DIRECTORY = "admin2/foundation/"

REST API

We plan to expose a REST API using Django Rest Framework. From this, you can define new themes powered by the client framework of your choice.