django simple audit

This applications was created to audit model's changes and maintain a log of them

Installation

You can install django-simple-audit in 2 ways: using pip or by setup.py install

$ pip install django-simple-audit

Then modify your settings.py, adding the package simple_audit in INSTALLED_APPS and in MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES add simple_audit.middleware.TrackingRequestOnThreadLocalMiddleware:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    '...',
    'simple_audit',
)

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
     '...',
     'simple_audit.middleware.TrackingRequestOnThreadLocalMiddleware',
)

DJANGO_SIMPLE_AUDIT_ACTIVATED = True

Usage

Tracking changes on a model

to audit a model you need import simple_audit and then register the model to be audited.

from django.db import models
import simple_audit


class Message(models.Model):

    title = models.CharField(max_length=50, blank=False)
    text = models.TextField(blank=False)

    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.text


class Owner(models.Model):

    name = models.CharField(max_length=50, blank=False)

    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.name


class VirtualMachine(models.Model):

    name = models.CharField(max_length=50, blank=False)
    cpus = models.IntegerField()
    owner = models.ForeignKey(Owner)
    so = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=False)
    started = models.BooleanField()

    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.name


simple_audit.register(Message, Owner, VirtualMachine)

Advanced Usage (without httprequest or our middleware)

You can use django-simple-audit without an http request (for example in management command). In this situation there is no http request on thread context. To ensure gathering all modification on a single AuditRequest, you can specify it:

AuditRequest.new_request(path, user, ip)
try:
    # my code... in same thread
finally:
    AuditRequest.cleanup_request()

Tracking m2m fields changes

Tracking m2m fields changes is still experimental, but you can enable it with the following variable:

DJANGO_SIMPLE_AUDIT_M2M_FIELDS = True

You need to have at least one cache backend set in your django settings, otherwise the previous settings will be set to False.

CACHES = {

'default': {

'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache', 'LOCATION': 'unique', 'TIMEOUT': 300,

}

}

Dependencies

• Django >= 1.4.x
• django.contrib.contenttypes installed in INSTALLED_APPS

TODO

• Improve tests

CHANGELOG

• 0.1.14

  • improved m2m audit feature ( thanks dinie )

  • Add support for Custom user model ( thanks dinie )
  • Option to turn on/off auditing ( thanks dinie )

• 0.1.12

  • Created some simple tests
  • Enable many to many fiedls tracking (see Usage)