jazzband / django-mongonaut

Built from scratch to replicate some of the Django admin functionality and add some more, to serve as an introspective interface for Django and Mongo.

django-mongonaut

Info:	An introspective interface for Django and MongoDB.
Version:	0.2.21
Maintainer:	Jazzband (jazzband.co)

This Project is Being Moved to Jazzband

In late 2015 @garrypolley and I agreed to move this project to the @jazzband organization. Since we've both been off MongoDB for several years, maintaining this project ourselves no longer makes sense. By handing this to Jazzband, we are:

1. Putting the project in a place where it will be maintained and extended.
2. Removes the time and effort needed to continue to accept and manage pull requests for a project we no longer wish to maintain but has a somewhat active user base.

About

django-mongonaut is an introspective interface for working with MongoDB via mongoengine. Rather then attempt to staple this functionality into Django's Admin interface, django-mongonaut takes the approach of rolling a new framework from scratch.

By writing it from scratch I get to avoid trying to staple ORM functionality on top of MongoDB, a NoSQL key/value binary-tree store.

Features

• Automatic introspection of mongoengine documents.
• Ability to constrain who sees what and can do what.
• Full control to add, edit, and delete documents
• More awesome stuff! See https://django-mongonaut.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html#features

Installation

Made as easy as possible, setup is actually easier than django.contrib.admin. Furthermore, the only dependencies are mongoengine and pymongo. Eventually django-mongonaut will be able to support installations without mongoengine.

Get MongoDB:

Download the right version per http://www.mongodb.org/downloads

Get Django Mongonaut (and mongoengine + pymongo):

pip install -U django-mongonaut

Install the dependency in your settings.py:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
...
    'mongonaut',
...
)

You will need the following also set up:

• django.contrib.sessions
• django.contrib.messages

Note

No need for autodiscovery() with django-mongonaut!

Add the mongonaut urls.py file to your urlconf file:

from djanog import urls

urlpatterns = [
    ...
    url.path('mongonaut/', urls.include('mongonaut.urls')),
    ...
]

Configuration

django-mongonaut will let you duplicate much of what django.contrib.admin gives you, but in a way more suited for MongoDB. Still being implemented, but already works better than any other MongoDB solution for Django. A simple example:

# myapp/mongoadmin.py

# Import the MongoAdmin base class
from mongonaut.sites import MongoAdmin

# Import your custom models
from blog.models import Post

# Instantiate the MongoAdmin class
# Then attach the mongoadmin to your model
Post.mongoadmin = MongoAdmin()

• https://django-mongonaut.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html

Documentation

All the documentation for this project is hosted at https://django-mongonaut.readthedocs.io.

Dependencies

• mongoengine >=0.5.2
• pymongo (comes with mongoengine)
• sphinx (optional - for documentation generation)

Code of Conduct

This project follows the Jazzband.co Code of Conduct.