Simple app to attach links to any Django model. Compatible with Django 4.x to 5.1 and Python 3.9 to 3.13.
- Model for creating generic link relations
- Reverse Generic Relation (Django) for your models
- Model Admin
- Generic inline admin to manage any model's generic links
- A template tag to get all links for a given model instance
- A fully working example project
Via pip command:
pip install django-generic-links...or you can clone the repo and install it using pip too:
git clone git://github.com/matagus/django-generic-links.git
cd django-generic-links
pip install -e .then add generic_links to your settings.py:
INSTALLED_APPS = (
# ...
"generic_links",
)then run the migrations:
python manage.py migrateand finally add the reverse generic relation to each of the models you're going to add generic links to:
from django.db import models
from django.contrib.contenttypes.fields import GenericRelation
class Artist(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
bio = models.TextField()
# This is important so that we can get the GenericLink related instances for an object of this model
generic_links = GenericRelation("generic_links.GenericLink")
class Album(models.Model):
title = models.CharField(max_length=100)
artist = models.ForeignKey(Artist, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
release_date = models.DateField(null=True, blank=True)
generic_links = GenericRelation("generic_links.GenericLink")>>> from generic_links.models import GenericLink
>>> from music.models import Artist
>>>
>>> # Get an artist from the database...
>>> lou_reed = Artist.objects.get(pk=1)
>>> lou_reed
<Artist: Lou Reed>
>>>
>>> # Create the first link
>>> link1 = GenericLink(title="Wikipedia Page", url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Reed", content_object=lou_reed)
>>> link1.save()
>>>
>>> # and then a second one
>>> link2 = GenericLink(title="Encyclopaedia Britannica", url="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lou-Reed",
content_object=lou_reed)
>>> link2.save()
>>>
>>> # Now get all the links for the artist object:
>>> lou_reed.generic_links.all()
<QuerySet [<GenericLink: Encyclopaedia Britannica :: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lou-Reed>,
<GenericLink: Wikipedia Page :: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Reed>]>Since a GenericLink instance will be associated to another object you usually
wish to show an inline model admin form in that model form.
from django.contrib import admin
from generic_links.admin import GenericLinkStackedInline
from music_app.models import Artist
@admin.register(Artist)
class ArtistAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
# ...
inlines = [GenericLinkStackedInline]Now imagine you have an artist page. You're passing artist object using template
context and you want to get all the links for it:
{% load generic_links_tags %}
<hl>{{ artist.name }}</hl>
<p>{{ artist.description }}</p>
<h2>Links for {{ artist.name }}</h2>
{% get_links_for artist as artist_links %}
<ul>
{% for link in artist_links %}
‹li><a href="{{ link.url }}" title="{{ link.title }}"> {{ link. title }}</a></li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>Contributions are welcome! ❤️
Please read Contributing.md for detailed instructions on how to help.
hatch run test:test will run the tests in every Python + Django versions combination.
hatch run test.py3.13-5.1:test will run them for python 3.13 and Django 5.1. Please see possible combinations using hatch env show` ("test" matrix).
django-generic-links is released under an BSD License - see the LICENSE file
for more information.
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Tools used in building this package:
- Cookiecutter and cookiecutter-djangopackage for rendering this package.
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