wd5 / 1-django-versioning

Version any object in Django, stores only diff, not content copy.

Django-Versioning

Django-versioning allows you to version the data stored in django models, and stores only diff, not content copy.

Supports all field types excepts ManyToMany (currently).

Forked from https://github.com/brosner/django-versioning

Usage

settings.py:

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = [
    # ...
    "versioning.middleware.VersioningMiddleware",
    # ...
]
# ...
INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # ...
   'versioning',  # Should be after apps with versioned models
    # ...
]

wiki/models.py:

from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
import versioning

class Article(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField()
    body = models.TextField()
    is_active = models.BooleanField()
    weight = models.IntegerField(blank=True, null=True)
    creator = models.ForeignKey(User, blank=True, null=True)

    class Meta:
        permissions = (
            ("wiki.browse_revision_article", "Can browse revisions"),
            ("wiki.reapply_revision_article", "Can repply revision"),
        )

versioning.register(
    Article,
    ['title', 'body', 'is_active', 'weight', 'creator', ]
)

wiki/templates/wiki/article_detail.html:

...
<a href="{% url versioning_revision_list content_type=contenttype_id object_id=article.pk %}">View the list of revisions.</a>
...

If you have already existent content, to create a first revision, simple run:

./manage.py versioning_setup wiki.Article -f

You can also view revisions in admin, by clicking "History" button on change object page.