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django-descriptive-id adds a field to django for automatically generated human-readable identifiers.
The DescriptiveIDField field added by django-descriptive-id requires a single parameter prefix, which will be used as the prefix for a unique human-readable character string.
pip install descriptive-id
Add descriptive_id to your installed_apps:
INSTALLED_APPS = (
...
'descriptive_id',
...
)
Add a DescriptiveIDField to any model:
from descriptive_id.fields import DescriptiveIDField
number = DescriptiveIDField(prefix='my_prefix')
django-descriptive-id will append a random (but human-readable) string to the given prefix and store the result in the field when an instance is added.
For the above example that might look something like:
'my_prefix_HLxGPQoemYERpN'
If you need to do development over this library, you can make use of the example application to test your developments.
Create a new virtual environment using virtualenv, and install the requirements from the example app into the virtual environment:
pip install -r example/requirements.txt
When you have made changes to the library, install the library into your virtual environment directly:
python setup.py install
The example app can then be initialized with migrations that make use of the field with your copy of the code installed.