Use of django-reversion outside Admin

[SnappyDjangoUser]

Hopefully this is the correct forum to ask django-reversion use
questions. If not, I apologize and please point me to the correct
forum.

Is there an easy way to incorporate the built-in Change History and
Reversion functionality that exists in the Admin in a standalone (non-
admin) site? I see that there is a low-level api, but before I built
something from the ground up, I wanted to ask and see if there is an
existing view function that could be called to render the Change
History and Reversion pages.

Thanks!

[David Hall]

Hi there,

You've come to the right place!

At the moment, there is no existing view function to do what you are
suggesting, as I suspect everyone would have a different way of doing it.

Have you considered using the VersionAdmin class and adding your own
media to style it as appropriate? If not, you can probably copy and
paste a whole lot of the code to get it working.

I'll be happy to answer any queries you have along the way, of course.

Best wishes, and good luck,

David.

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[SnappyDjangoUser]

Good idea! I am just starting to see the light on how django-
reversion is designed.

Just to make sure I understand what you are suggesting, you are
suggesting copying the code in VersionAdmin into a new class and
instead of deriving VersionAdmin from admin.ModelAdmin I could dervice
it from models.Model. I would then use this new class as an abstract
base class to my models. Is that correct?

Thanks,

Brian

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[David Hall]

Not really. I was more suggesting that you either turn the methods in
VersionAdmin into view functions, or add a media definition to the
VersionAdmin class to style it to your needs.

class MyModelAdmin(VersionAdmin):

class Media:
css = "/media/foo.css", "/media/bar.css",

admin.site.register(MyModel, MyModelAdmin)

Converting the VersionAdmin class into view functions will probably be
easier in the long run, however.

David.

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