Django
Haystack Full-Text Search
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A quick word on the project requirements: the team needed to publish documentation externally. The documents are written in Markdown and need to be published as HTML. At first we used an Nginx + Jekyll solution. As the documentation grew, the document system developed a strong need for search. I

Django Signals
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1. Basic Concepts Django ships with a signal dispatcher built in. Signals help decouple program modules. When an event occurs elsewhere in the application, a designated function is notified. Signals let certain senders notify a group of receivers that some action has taken place. 2. Using Signals 2.1 Declaring a

Django Class-Based Views
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Django has two kinds of views: function-based views and class-based views. The role of a view is mainly to fill in logic and return a response body. Function-based views are hard to extend and have a low rate of code reuse. Class-based views, on the other hand, can use inheritance

Automated Testing in Django
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Automated testing in Django can be done with doctests or unit tests. The logic of automated testing is to pass test data into the function under test, then use whether the output matches the expected result as the criterion for whether the test passes. There are a few key points

Permission Management in Django REST Framework
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1. Permission Management in DRF Permission management in Django REST Framework consists of two parts. One is Authentication. It specifies how the user is authenticated, obtaining request.user. The other is Permissions. It performs permission control over Django resources and user categories. 1.1 Authentication Methods The relevant source is in the rest_framework/authentication.