Django-Friendship

This application enables you to create and manage follows and bi-directional friendships between users. It features:

Friendship request objects that can be accepted, rejected, canceled, or marked as viewed.
Hooks to easily list all friend requests sent or received by a given user, filtered by the status of the request.
Tags to include information about friendships and follows in your templates.
Integration with AUTH_USER_MODEL.
Validation to prevent common mistakes.
Faster server response time through caching

Requirements

Django 1.4 since v0.9.0 (latest release supporting Django 1.3 is v0.8.3)

Installation

pip install django-friendship
add "friendship" to INSTALLED_APPS and run python manage.py migrate.
Use the friendship manager in your own views, or wire up the URLconf to include the builtin views: :
```
urlpatterns = [
    ...
    url(r'^friendship/', include('friendship.urls'))
    ...
]
```

Usage

django-friendship provides a free API that gives you several ways to create and manage friendship requests or follows in your views. Add the following at the top of your views.py:

from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from friendship.models import Friend, Follow

Getting Data about Friendships

List all of a user's friends: Friend.objects.friends(request.user)
List all unread friendship requests: Friend.objects.unread_requests(user=request.user)
List all unrejected friendship requests: Friend.objects.unrejected_requests(user=request.user)
Count of all unrejected friendship requests: Friend.objects.unrejected_request_count(user=request.user)
List all rejected friendship requests: Friend.objects.rejected_requests(user=request.user)
Count of all rejected friendship requests: Friend.objects.rejected_request_count(user=request.user)
List of all sent friendship requests: Friend.objects.sent_requests(user=request.user)
Test if two users are friends: Friend.objects.are_friends(request.user, other_user) == True

Getting Data about Follows

List of a user's followers: Follow.objects.followers(request.user)
List of who a user is following: Follow.objects.following(request.user)

Managing Friendships and Follows

Create a friendship request: :

other_user = User.objects.get(pk=1)
Friend.objects.add_friend(
    request.user,                               # The sender
    other_user,                                 # The recipient
    message='Hi! I would like to add you')      # This message is optional

Let the user who received the request respond: :

from friendship.models import FriendshipRequest

friend_request = FriendshipRequest.objects.get(pk=1)
friend_request.accept()
# or friend_request.reject()

To remove the friendship relationship between request.user and other_user, do the following: :
```
Friend.objects.remove_friend(request.user, other_user)
```

Make request.user a follower of other_user: :

Follow.objects.add_follower(request.user, other_user)

Templates

You can use django-friendship tags in your templates. First enter: :

{% load friendshiptags %}

Then use any of the following: :

{% friends request.user %}
{% followers request.user %}
{% following request.user %}
{% friend_requests request.user %}

Signals

django-friendship emits the following signals:

friendship_request_created
friendship_request_rejected
friendship_request_canceled
friendship_request_accepted
friendship_removed
follower_created
following_created
follower_removed
following_removed

Contributing

Development takes place on GitHub. Bug reports, patches, and fixes are always welcome!

vladimirmyshkovski / django-friendship