django-nativeshortuuidfield

Provides a NativeShortUUIDField for your Django models which uses the base-57 "Short UUID" package at https://github.com/stochastic-technologies/shortuuid/ to be used in Python and store it as full UUID in database.

Installation

Install it with pip (or easy_install):

$ pip install django-nativeshortuuidfield

Usage

First you'll need to add a NativeShortUUIDField to your class:

from native_shortuuid import NativeShortUUIDField

class MyModel(models.Model):
    uuid = NativeShortUUIDField(unique=True, default=uuid.uuid4)

If you want to add the ability to search by shortuuid in ModelAdmin you need to inherit NativeUUIDSearchMixin

from native_shortuuid.admin import NativeUUIDSearchMixin

@admin.register(models.MyModel)
class MyModelAdmin(NativeUUIDSearchMixin, admin.ModelAdmin):
    search_fields = ('uuid', )

If you want to have to ability to write your own uuid search fields list

from native_shortuuid.admin import NativeUUIDSearchMixin

@admin.register(models.MyModel)
class MyModelAdmin(NativeUUIDSearchMixin, admin.ModelAdmin):
    admin_auto_extract_uuid_search_fields = False
    search_fields = ('name', )
    search_uuid_fields = ['uuid', 'foreign_model__uuid']

Enjoy!

Settings

• ADMIN_AUTO_EXTRACT_UUID_SEARCH_FIELDS: default True
  • This setting is to autofill search_uuid_fields in the ModelAdmins that inherits NativeUUIDSearchMixin with all shortuuid fields that are in the search_fields array. if you turned it off, you'll need to define search_uuid_fields on you ModelAdmin in order to search on shortuuid fields

Notes

• NativeShortUUIDField is a subclass of django.db.models.UUIDField

• You can pass usual Django UUIDField parameters on init, although some of them are added/overwritten:

  • blank=True, editable=False (set auto=False to remove these fields enforcement)

Contribution Notes

Pull Request

• Increase the version number in the setup.py to the new version that the new pull request represents.

Publishing the Package

After the pull request gets merged into the master branch a new release should be created

• Create a new tag with the same version number you updated the setup.py with:

  $ git checkout master
  $ git tag -a 2.1.0 -m 'fix importing order'
  $ git push origin 2.1.0

• Go to GitHub's releases section and create a new release:

  • Chose the tag version that you just created
  • Fill the release title with the same version number
  • Add a description of the release and publish it