An implementation of a custom MarkupField for Django. A MarkupField is in essence a TextField with an associated markup format and MarkItUp! markup editor widget with AJAX preview. The field also caches its rendered value on the assumption that disk space is cheaper than CPU cycles in a web application.
Based on django-markupfield and django-markitup.
The recommended way to install django-markitup-field is with pip
Install from PyPI with easy_install
or pip
:
pip install django-markitup-field
or get the in-development version:
pip install django-markitup-field==tip
It is not necessary to add 'markitup_field'
to your INSTALLED_APPS
, it merely needs to be on your PYTHONPATH
.
If you want to use AJAX-based preview, add url(r'^markitup/', include('markitup.urls'))
in your root URLconf.
django-markitup-field depends on a relatively current version of Django (tested with 1.3-1.4, may work with 1.2 but not guaranteed) and libraries for whichever markup options you wish to include.
You can define the MARKUP_FILTERS
setting, a mapping of strings to callables that 'render' a markup type:
import markdown
from docutils.core import publish_parts
def render_rest(markup):
parts = publish_parts(source=markup, writer_name="html4css1")
return parts["fragment"]
MARKUP_FILTERS = (
('markdown', markdown.markdown),
('restructuredtext', render_rest),
)
If you do not define a MARKUP_FILTERS
then one is provided with the following markup types available:
- html:
allows HTML, potentially unsafe
- text:
plain text markup, calls urlize and replaces text with linebreaks
- markdown:
default markdown renderer (only if python-markdown is installed)
- restructuredtext:
- textile:
Using MarkupField is relatively easy, it can be used in any model definition:
from django.db import models
from markitup_field.fields import MarkupField
class Article(models.Model):
title = models.CharField(max_length=100)
slug = models.SlugField(max_length=100)
body = MarkupField()
Article
objects can then be created with any markup type defined in MARKUP_FORMATS
:
Article.objects.create(title='some article', slug='some-article',
body='*fancy*', body_markup_format='markdown')
You will notice that a field named body_markup_format
exists that you did not declare, MarkupField actually creates two extra fields. body_markup_format
This field is always named according to the name of the declared MarkupField
.
MarkupField
also takes three optional arguments. Either default_markup_format
and markup_format
arguments may be specified but not both.
default_markup_format
:Set a markup_type that the field will default to if one is not specified. It is still possible to edit the markup type attribute and it will appear by default in ModelForms.
markup_format
:Set markup type that the field will always use,
editable=False
is set on the hidden field so it is not shown in ModelForms.markup_choices
:A replacement list of markup choices to be used in lieu of
MARKUP_FORMATS
on a per-field basis.escape_html
:A flag (False by default) indicating that the input should be regarded as untrusted and as such will be run through Django's
escape
filter.rendered_field_name
:Name for field with rendered content. If it is set to None, then it named <field_name>_rendered
MarkupField
that will default to using markdown but allow the user a choice:
MarkupField(default_markup_type='markdown')
MarkupField
that will use textile and not provide a choice on forms:
MarkupField(markup_type='textile')
MarkupField
that will use a custom set of renderers:
CUSTOM_RENDERERS = (
('markdown', markdown.markdown),
('wiki', my_wiki_render_func)
)
MarkupField(markup_choices=CUSTOM_RENDERERS)
When accessing an attribute of a model that was declared as a MarkupField
a special Markup
object is returned. The Markup
object has three parameters:
raw
:The unrendered markup.
markup_format
:The markup type.
rendered
:The rendered HTML version of
raw
, this attribute is read-only.
This object has a __unicode__
method that calls django.utils.safestring.mark_safe
on rendered
allowing MarkupField objects to appear in templates as their rendered selfs without any template tag or having to access rendered
directly.
Assuming the Article
model above:
>>> a = Article.objects.all()[0]
>>> a.body.raw
u'*fancy*'
>>> a.body.markup_type
u'markdown'
>>> a.body.rendered
u'<p><em>fancy</em></p>'
>>> print unicode(a.body)
<p><em>fancy</em></p>
Assignment to a.body
is equivalent to assignment to a.body.raw
and assignment to a.body_markup_format
is equivalent to assignment to a.body.markup_format
.
Note
a.body.rendered is only updated when a.save() is called