A drop in replacement for Django's built-in runserver command. Features include:
- An extendable interface for handling things such as real-time logging.
- Integration with the werkzeug interactive debugger.
- Threaded (default) and multi-process development servers.
- Ability to specify a WSGI application as your target environment.
Note
django-devserver works on Django 1.3 and newer
To install the latest stable version:
pip install git+git://github.com/dcramer/django-devserver#egg=django-devserver
django-devserver has some optional dependancies, which we highly recommend installing.
pip install sqlparse-- pretty SQL formattingpip install werkzeug-- interactive debuggerpip install guppy-- tracks memory usage (required for MemoryUseModule)pip install line_profiler-- does line-by-line profiling (required for LineProfilerModule)
You will need to include devserver in your INSTALLED_APPS:
INSTALLED_APPS = (
...
'devserver',
)
If you're using django.contrib.staticfiles or any other apps with management
command runserver, make sure to put devserver above any of them (or below,
for Django<1.7). Otherwise devserver will raise exception to ensure it is set up
properly.
Once installed, using the new runserver replacement is easy. You must specify verbosity of 0 to disable real-time log output:
python manage.py runserver
Note: This will force settings.DEBUG to True.
By default, devserver would bind itself to 127.0.0.1:8000. To change this default, DEVSERVER_DEFAULT_ADDR and DEVSERVER_DEFAULT_PORT settings are available.
| --werkzeug | Tells Django to use the Werkzeug interactive debugger, instead of it's own. |
| --forked | Use a forking (multi-process) web server instead of threaded. |
| --dozer | Enable the dozer memory debugging middleware (at /_dozer) |
| --wsgi-app | Load the specified WSGI app as the server endpoint. |
Please see python manage.py runserver --help for more information additional options.
Note: You may also use devserver's middleware outside of the management command:
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
'devserver.middleware.DevServerMiddleware',
)
The following options may be configured via your settings.py:
- DEVSERVER_ARGS = []
- Additional command line arguments to pass to the
runservercommand (as defaults). - DEVSERVER_DEFAULT_ADDR = '127.0.0.1'
- The default address to bind to.
- DEVSERVER_DEFAULT_PORT = '8000'
- The default port to bind to.
- DEVSERVER_WSGI_MIDDLEWARE
- A list of additional WSGI middleware to apply to the
runservercommand. - DEVSERVER_MODULES = []
- A list of devserver modules to load.
- DEVSERVER_IGNORED_PREFIXES = ['/media', '/uploads']
- A list of prefixes to surpress and skip process on. By default,
ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX,MEDIA_URLandSTATIC_URL(for Django >= 1.3) will be ignored (assumingMEDIA_URLandSTATIC_URLis relative)
django-devserver includes several modules by default, but is also extendable by 3rd party modules. This is done via the DEVSERVER_MODULES setting:
DEVSERVER_MODULES = (
'devserver.modules.sql.SQLRealTimeModule',
'devserver.modules.sql.SQLSummaryModule',
'devserver.modules.profile.ProfileSummaryModule',
# Modules not enabled by default
'devserver.modules.ajax.AjaxDumpModule',
'devserver.modules.profile.MemoryUseModule',
'devserver.modules.cache.CacheSummaryModule',
'devserver.modules.profile.LineProfilerModule',
)
Outputs queries as they happen to the terminal, including time taken.
Disable SQL query truncation (used in SQLRealTimeModule) with the DEVSERVER_TRUNCATE_SQL setting:
DEVSERVER_TRUNCATE_SQL = False
Filter SQL queries with the DEVSERVER_FILTER_SQL setting:
DEVSERVER_FILTER_SQL = (
re.compile('djkombu_\w+'), # Filter all queries related to Celery
)
Outputs a summary of your SQL usage.
Outputs a summary of the request performance.
Outputs a notice when memory use is increased (at the end of a request cycle).
Profiles view methods on a line by line basis. There are 2 ways to profile your view functions, by setting setting.DEVSERVER_AUTO_PROFILE = True or by decorating the view functions you want profiled with devserver.modules.profile.devserver_profile. The decoration takes an optional argument follow which is a sequence of functions that are called by your view function that you would also like profiled.
An example of a decorated function:
@devserver_profile(follow=[foo, bar])
def home(request):
result['foo'] = foo()
result['bar'] = bar()
When using the decorator, we recommend that rather than import the decoration directly from devserver that you have code somewhere in your project like:
try:
if 'devserver' not in settings.INSTALLED_APPS:
raise ImportError
from devserver.modules.profile import devserver_profile
except ImportError:
from functools import wraps
class devserver_profile(object):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
pass
def __call__(self, func):
def nothing(*args, **kwargs):
return func(*args, **kwargs)
return wraps(func)(nothing)
By importing the decoration using this method, devserver_profile will be a pass through decoration if you aren't using devserver (eg in production)
Outputs a summary of your cache calls at the end of the request.
Outputs the content of any AJAX responses
Change the maximum response length to dump with the DEVSERVER_AJAX_CONTENT_LENGTH setting:
DEVSERVER_AJAX_CONTENT_LENGTH = 300
Outputs information about the current session and user.
Building modules in devserver is quite simple. In fact, it resembles the middleware API almost identically.
Let's take a sample module, which simple tells us when a request has started, and when it has finished:
from devserver.modules import DevServerModule
class UselessModule(DevServerModule):
logger_name = 'useless'
def process_request(self, request):
self.logger.info('Request started')
def process_response(self, request, response):
self.logger.info('Request ended')
There are additional arguments which may be sent to logger methods, such as duration:
# duration is in milliseconds
self.logger.info('message', duration=13.134)