Django - Notes & Useful commands¶

Here you can find useful Django commands:

Django basics¶

python manage.py runserver --insecure
python manage.py shell
python manage.py makemigrations laws
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py createsuperuser
./manage.py changepassword admin  #to set the password for the Django admin user

python manage.py startapp appname
python manage.py test appname

Custom commands¶

python manage.py process_laws --empty --limit 100 --min-lines 1000
python manage.py process_cases --limit 10
python manage.py import_courts --input oldp/apps/courts/data/ecli.csv --empty

In dev & before deployment

python manage.py collectstatic --noinput
python manage.py collectstatic --noinput --ignore=*.scss

./manage.py compilescss

python manage.py makemessages --locale=en --locale=de --ignore=env --ignore=workingdir
python manage.py compilemessages --l de --l en

# API token
./manage.py drf_create_token <username>

Migrations

./manage.py showmigrations

# Reset
./manage.py migrate appname zero --fake


# Login and drop tables
./manage.py dbshell

drop table cases_case;
drop table cases_relatedcase;

drop table references_casereference;
drop table references_casereferencemarker;
drop table references_lawreference;
drop table references_lawreferencemarker;

Search¶

./manage.py rebuild_index
./manage.py update_index

Tests¶

# All tests
./manage.py test

# Specific app tests
./manage.py test oldp.apps.cases --keepdb

Cache¶

# run in production shell
from django.core.cache import cache
cache.clear()

Flatpages¶

/imprint/
/privacy/
/api/

Sitemaps¶

Once the sitemaps application is added to your project, you may also ping Google using the ping_google management command:

python manage.py ping_google [/sitemap.xml]

Generate UML diagram from models¶

apt-get install python-pygraphviz
pip install django-extensions
# add 'django_extensions' to INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py
python manage.py graph_models trees -o test.png