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Telegram OAuth with django
im trying to integrate telegram oauth into my application, currently it successfully log in in telegram, but django doesnt received any data in callback, I have tryied many methods, but without any ...
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Django project assistance [closed]
When I am creating a new Django project on PyCharm and
Choosing to create it in a new enviornment using virtualenv
Inheriting all global site packages and making available to all projects
Choosing ...
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Best practices for structuring Django REST APIs for maintainability and scalability
I am building a Django-based backend for an e-commerce project with multiple models and REST API endpoints.
I want to follow clean architecture and maintainability best practices.
How should I ...
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Django static files settings
In my app I combine Django and FastAPI.
For test purpose i've created minimal Django project with default settings and minimal FastAPI app.
So, in my settings:
DEBUG = True
STATIC_URL = 'static/'
I ...
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How do I create a Django ListView with FormMixin?
I have a working ListView with template. I want to filter the list based on the contents of a form, something like:
class SampleListView(FormMixin, ListView):
model = Sample
paginate_by = 15
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For files uploaded via Django, how can I use them with libraries that require a hard file path to the file?
I am currently working on a text extraction component of my Django backend, which intends to extract text from urls (working), pure text (working), and files (.pdf, .doc, .ppt, .md, .txt, .html).
My ...
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Should a single API call handle everything to make life of frontend easy, or there be as many apis as needed [closed]
So I face this issue often. Apart from being a backend python dev, I also have to handle a team consisting of frontend guys as well.
We are into SPAs, and a single page of ours sometime contain a lot ...
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Is django backend a good choice to learn now?
I have some experience with Python, and I’m interested in backend development.
Is Django still a good choice to learn in the current job market?
I’m particularly interested in its relevance for modern ...
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DRF unable to find existing model item in API
I am creating an API with Django Rest Framework and I keep encoutering an issue where i am unable to pull a single item from my django model on the browser.
I have two endpoints one that gets the ...
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Django-axes seems to ignore ipware settings behind Nginx
Edit.: Ok, so this was something rather stupid on my end. I assumed that since the docs said 'Axes makes use of django-ipware package to detect the IP address of the client and uses some conservative ...
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Django: exception in get_catalog()
I have a limited set of LANGUAGES:
LANGUAGE_CODE='sl' # It's for locals first of all
LANGUAGES=[
('sl', _('Slovene')), # First is default
('en', _('English')),
('it', _('Italian')),
('...
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Why won't Django render its select widget with this code
I am trying to use Django's default select widget to render an html dropdown and I just can't seem to figure out what I am doing wrong...
here is my models.py
class VehicleYear(TimeStampedModel):
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How to migrate data for email field
So i have a char field which i was using to store emails. Now there are some rule/validation and processes for email fields like email validation and email normalization etc. I have to add the ...
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Disable add, edit and delete views and widgets for a custom Wagtail ViewSet index page
I have this Django model:
class Player(models.Model):
class Meta:
verbose_name = _("Player")
verbose_name_plural = _("Players")
first_name = models....
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Django archive user if clicked for detail page view an error appears
I have this user model and in admin.py which of course is used by my client as admin page view and recently my client requested that the user/s who has been archived should not show in the active list ...
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How can I set up a new comment string in PyCharm for fragment of DTL code in .html file?
In PyCharm we have a convinient way to turn off selected part of a code by pressing Ctrl+/. Later we can turn it on back by pressing the same key combination.
However if I am inside the HTML code the ...
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Designing a flexible relationships model in Django
I'm designing a small Django app, and writing some code snippets to go with the design. I have some simple models in the design, like Person and Book:
from django.db import models
class Book(models....
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Mocked Redis counter does not increment between requests for different users
I am testing a Django view that increments recipe view counters using Redis.
The logic is:
each user can increment recipe views only once
different users should increment the counter
Redis is ...
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Windows Apache two django projects in separated venv
I need to host two separated apps, with separated venv and separated db, reason cut costs. Both of apps have been developed separately, now I have only single server to host them.
core is running on ...
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PAPERLESS_FILENAME_FORMAT does not modify the files structure into folders
I installed paperless-ngx (with Docker) on a Raspberry Pi5 with Trixies with success.
After, I uploaded a document, I can see a list of files in this location /paperless-ngx/media/documents/originals
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Django startproject fails after I manually created the project files/folders (name conflict?)
I’m setting up a Django + Channels project and I think I messed up the order.
I ran these commands:
cd ~
mkdir social_mvp
cd social_mvp
mkdir socialsite
mkdir core
mkdir -p core/templates/core
mkdir -...
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Django admin actions not reflecting on user dashboard and admin privileges are limited
I am working on a Django project where actions performed in the Django admin panel (such as approving users, updating statuses, or modifying records) are not reflecting on the users’ dashboard views. ...
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Why does Celery with Redis backend create hundreds of connections despite max_connections limits
I am using Django + Celery with Redis as both the broker and the result backend. Here is my Celery configuration:
# Celery settings
CELERY_BROKER_URL = 'redis://redis:6379/1'
CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND = '...
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Wagtail CMS: How to get a searchable ForeignKey field in Page editor (instead of huge dropdown)?
I’m using Wagtail 7.1.2 and have a Page model with a ForeignKey to a model that contains a very large number of rows (cities).
Example:
class CityPage(Page):
cityobject = models.ForeignKey(
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Django Docker production solutions [duplicate]
I created python django apps for family use, e. g. for movies and books. I use a local pc for development and a NAS with docker to use in production. The applications are reachable via traefik, but ...
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Why do the Centroid function and centroid method return (slightly) different results
I have a GeoDjango (v5.2) model ("Location") with a MultiPolygonField ("coordinates") and use PostGIS (v17-3.5) as database backend. When I annotate a queryset with the multi-...
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Django sign up page shows alert "Something went wrong, try again" instead of success message
I am working on Django project.
I have a user_signup page where users can create an account.
When I click Create an Account, and when i create it with users informations , instead of showing "...
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Django SuperUser Not having the one to one relationship with profile form
I wanted to create a edit profile page and along with the usercreationform fields wanted to add extra fields like phone no and data and use a one to one relation with the model having extra infos
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Should I use Django Admin in production for a pharmacy website?
I am building my first production ready pharmacy website using Django.
The backend will be used to manage products, inventory, orders, and users.
I am considering using Django’s built-in Admin ...
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Navbar opacity drops and disappears when clicking links rapidly using HTMX in Django
I am building a Django website where I use HTMX to load partial HTML content when clicking navbar links (instead of full page reloads).
The navbar itself is not supposed to change, only the main ...
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HTML not executing code from external JavaScript file
I wrote ajax for django to add products to cart, I use internal js which runs but when I put that code in external js file it doesn't work, Although I received the ID and csrf_token.
html
<main ...
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"django.db.utils.NutSupportedError: extension 'postgis' not available" error being thrown despite having postgis installed in Python virtualenv
I am attempting to migrate model changes I have made to my codebase to a PostgreSQL server (PostgreSQL 18.1 on x86_64-linux, compiled by gcc-11.4.0, 64-bit), but every time I do this error is thrown. ...
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I have 3 different account types in a Django project. Should I use 1 or 3 apps?
I'm new to Django. I've been making a project with 3 types of accounts: Schools, professors and users. But I feel like some things would be too "repetitive" like some model fields and views ...
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i cant install taiwind css in my django project [duplicate]
(venv) PS C:\poultry_link\poultrylink> npx tailwind css init
npm error could not determine executable to run
npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: C:\Users\naallah\AppData\Local\npm-...
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django model with foreign key onto settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL fails when app is incorporated into other app using postgres [duplicate]
I have a survey app that works fine as a standalone app with no complaints (using sqlite).
But when I incorporate the survey app into another that is using postgres as a database, it fails to run the ...
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django model with foreign key onto settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL fails when app is incorporated into other app using postgres
I have a survey app that works fine as a standalone app with no complaints (using sqlite).
But when I incorporate the survey app into another that is using postgres as a database, it fails to run the ...
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Using django-storages S3 implementation for Minio with s3v4 signature
I have "successfully" set up django-storages to work with our self hosted Minio instance.
This is the settings for the setup:
STORAGES = {
"default": {
"BACKEND&...
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Does a ModelSerializer catch "django.core.exceptions.ValidationError"s and turn them to an HTTP response with a 400 status code?
Let's say this is my model:
from django.core.exceptions import ValidationError
class MyModel(models.Model):
value = models.CharField(max_length=255)
def clean(self):
if self.value == &...
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Django ManyToMany table missing even though migrations are applied (Docker + Postgres)
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I am working on a Django project using a PostgreSQL container in Docker. I added a ManyToManyField to one of my models. I keep migrations in .gitignore because my local and production ...
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Does Django inlineformset allow for editing & submitting related model data?
I'm attempting to display a form for a tennis event (location, time/date) and each of its participants (name, status). I was recommended to use an inlineformset, which I assume would allow editing of ...
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Django ManyToMany self relationship with through model — user_from and user_to reversed behavior
I added following and followers by using intermediate model, it's ok but does not correctly specify objects in the intermediate model. I expect the user who follows must to be in the user_from field ...
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Django DRF JWT Authentication credentials were not provided on UpdateAPIView even for is_staff user
I'm implementing JWT authentication using Django REST Framework and djangorestframework-simplejwt in my project.
I have an endpoint for updating a category.
What I tried
Verified that the JWT token ...
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What does _db used for in a django Model Manager
While trying to create a custom QuerySet and a custom Manager for a django Model I stumbled upon the documentation sections 1 and 2 that use the manager's _db property and i would like to understand ...
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Gunicorn (Uvicorn Worker) continues processing requests after Heroku 30s timeout
I’m running a Django (ASGI) app Heroku using Gunicorn with the Uvicorn worker to support WebSockets.
Heroku has a hard 30-second request timeout. When a request exceeds 30 seconds, Heroku closes the ...
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Does using Django model choices for search filters add server load on every page request?
I’m building a Django-based classifieds website.
Previously, my search form populated districts and categories using database queries like:
districts = (
AdPost.objects
.filter(admin_verified=...
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Change color for StackedInline?
I'd like to change background color for these headers for different color (not white):
Like this:
My models:
from django.core.validators import MinValueValidator, MaxValueValidator
from django.db ...
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How to do nested inlines in Django?
I have models:
from django.db import models
class Request(models.Model):
class Method(models.TextChoices):
POST = "POST", "POST"
GET = "GET", "...
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How to make different url aliases work for local django development
I am using django-tenants and created various aliases that all point to localhost.
If the local development server is reachable via http://localhost:8000/ and I can login to the admin as expected.
If ...
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Django admin update get_queryset only for "change" view
In my django project admin I have an Order model. I display a bunch of information in the change page with the help of custom inlines. As I use a lot of related models, I want to prefetch/select the ...
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Why does Django Http404 return a JSON payload while all other Http error responses don't?
Django's http response.py library provides an Http404 class that can be used to raise a "not found" exception which returns a 404 along with the following JSON payload: {"detail":&...
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