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Model object's history tracking in Django
Model history tracking is a feature which tracks the changes in model object, it tracks things like what change you made in it and when you deleted it. It also helps in the recovery of deleted object of model. In this article, we will take an example to see how to track a model object's history in Django.
Example
First of all, set up your project, apps, urls and a model.
Install the django-simple-history library −
pip install django-simple-history
In settings.py −
INSTALLED_APPS+=[" simple_history"] MIDDLEWARE = [ #other middle ware 'simple_history.middleware.HistoryRequestMiddleware', ]
Here we added the "simple_history" module as app and a middleware.
Here we don't have much to do on urls.py and views.py because our main work will be with models.py and admin.py.
In models.py, add the following −
from django.db import models from simple_history.models import HistoricalRecords # Create your models here. class StudentData(models.Model): name=models.CharField(max_length=100) standard=models.CharField(max_length=100) section=models.CharField(max_length=100) history = HistoricalRecords()
Here we simply created a model and the history field that will save every change.
In admin.py, add the following lines −
from django.contrib import admin from .models import StudentData from simple_history.admin import SimpleHistoryAdmin admin.site.register(StudentData,SimpleHistoryAdmin)
Here we registered the model with history tracking admin.
Now run these commands −
python manage.py makemigrations python manage.py migrate python manage.py createsuperuser
Now you are all set. The above codes in models.py will save all the historical data in a field which you can access in views.py or Django shell.
Output
You can query it in views.py or Django shell.
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