# Django Published [](https://pypi.org/project/django-published/)
Published allows you to control the public visibility of model instances.
Useful in situations like below!
You have a model where some number of instances of the model should
be "live". A good example of this would be an Article model, where
you've written some articles that are "live", some that might've
been taken down, some that are still "in progress", and others that
are ready to "go live", but have a "go live" date that's in the
future.
This project is based on [django-model-gatekeeper](https://github.com/WGBH/django-model-gatekeeper) by
[WGBH](https://github.com/WGBH/).
## Quick start
1. Add "published" to your `INSTALLED_APPS`:
```python
INSTALLED_APPS = [
...
'published',
]
```
## Gatekeeping Models
The main use for *django-published* is where you have a model with many
instances, but you only want some to be "live" on the site.
A good example is a generic "Article" model:
> - Some articles are ready-to-go and you want them live to the
> public;
> - Other articles are still being worked on - you want to be able to
> preview them, but not take them live JUST yet;
> - Some articles might be pulled (and re-published later)
> - Some articles are ready to be published, but you want them to only
> go live at a later date.
To start using this, all you need to do is subclass the
`PublishedModel` abstract model,
e.g:
```python
from published.models import PublishedModel
class Article(PublishedModel):
...
```
The superclass creates two fields:
1. `publish_status` - this has 3 possible values:
- **NEVER_AVAILABLE** = "permanently off" - hard-wired to NEVER be available to
the public
- **AVAILABLE_AFTER** = "use live_as_of" date to determine if the object is
available to the public
- **AVAILABLE** = "always on" - hard-wired to be always available to the
public
2. `live_as_of` - this is the timestamp of when the object should go live, if publish_status
is **AVAILABLE_AFTER**
You set the `publish_status` and `live_as_of` values through the admin.
### Generic Model Views
Setting up _django-published_ for generic models views is easy!
Using the Article model as an example, here is the corresponding
view code for listing and detail views.
```python
from django.views.generic import DetailView, ListView
from .models import Article
from published.mixins import PublishedListMixin, PublishedDetailMixin
class ArticleListView(PublishedListMixin, ListView):
model = Article
template_name = 'article/article_list.html'
context_object_name = 'articles'
class ArticleDetailView(PublishedDetailMixin, DetailView):
model = Article
template_name = 'article/article_detail.html'
context_object_name = 'article'
```
What's happening behind the scenes:
1. In the ListView, *django-published* is filtering the model with the
following rules:
1. If the current user has admin access, always include the model instance.
2. If `publish_status = AVAILABLE`, include the model instance.
3. If `publish_status = NEVER_AVAILABLE`, DO NOT the model instance.
4. If `publish_status = AVAILABLE_AFTER`, *and* the current date/time is after
`live_as_of`, include the model instance.
4. Return the filtered list of model instances.
2. In the DetailView, *django-published* follows the same rules but will
throw a 404 error if the model instance is not available.
### Custom Code
Say there's a section on your homepage that gives a list of the three
most recent articles. If you just create a queryset along the lines of:
most_recent_articles = Article.objects.order_by(-date_created)[:3]
it will include articles regardless of what their gatekeeping situation
is.
So there is a helper function to apply the gatekeeping rules to any
queryset you generate.
#### queryset_filter
This takes a queryset, applies the rules and returns a filtered queryset.
```python
from published.utils import queryset_filter
...
recent_articles = Article.objects.order_by('-date_created')
recent_articles = queryset_filter(recent_articles, is_auth)
...
```
By default, `queryset_filter` does not apply the same exceptions as the view
mixins above. This means that unpublished model instances will be *not* displayed
if the current user has admin access.
The optional `user` parameter allows you to enable this special case, as seen below.
```python
queryset_filter(queryset, user=self.request.user)
```
#### available_to_public
**Note**: This should only be used in templates
If you need to check if an object is considered "available" in a Django template, you can use the
`available_to_public` model attribute, as below.
```djangotemplate
{% for article in article_list %}
{% if article.available_to_public %}
I'm published!
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
```
# The Admin Interface
*django-published* has several helper functions to make adding admin controls easier.
All of them can be found in the `django-published.admin` module.

## PublishedAdmin
All of the below functions require the use of the `PublishedAdmin` abstract class instead
of the default `ModelAdmin` class. You can see examples of this in all of the code below.
## Readonly Fields
To use any of the below functions, one field needs to be added to the admin instance.
This can be done using `add_to_readonly_fields`
1. A `show_publish_status` that takes the `live_as_of` and `publish_status`
fields and creates a human-friendly string from them
Example code:
```python
from published.admin import PublishedAdmin, add_to_readonly_fields
class MyModelAdmin(PublishedAdmin):
readonly_fields = ['my_field_1', 'my_field_2'] + add_to_readonly_fields()
```
## List Display
To show the status in an admin list view, `show_publish_status` needs to be added to
`list_display`
This can be added automatically with the `add_to_list_display` method, e.g.:
```python
from published.admin import PublishedAdmin, add_to_list_display
class MyModelAdmin(PublishedAdmin):
list_display = ['pk', 'title', ] + add_to_list_display()
```
## Fieldsets
There are two ways to include the *django-published* fields using the
`add_to_fieldsets` method:
### As a separate section
There's a `section` attribute (default:
True) that returns the entire section tuple with the gatekeeper fields.
There's also a `collapse` attribute
(default: False) that uses the Django Admin "collapse" class.
```python
from published.admin import PublishedAdmin, add_to_fieldsets
class MyModelAdmin(PublishedAdmin):
fieldsets = (
(None, ...),
add_to_fieldsets(section=True, collapse=False)
)
```
### Included as part of a section
Or you can include them as part of another section; in this case you'd
set `section=False`
```python
from published.admin import PublishedAdmin, add_to_fieldsets
class MyModelAdmin(PublishedAdmin):
fieldsets = (
(None, {
'fields': (
(some set of fields),
add_to_fieldsets(section=False)
)
}),
```
And of course you can just do it all manually with the editable `live_as_of`, `publish_status` fields and the readonly
`show_publish_status` field.
## License
This software is released under the MIT license.
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