Django EAV 2 - Entity-Attribute-Value storage for Django

Django EAV 2 is a fork of django-eav. You can find documentation here for more information.

What is new here ?

With this version of django eav, you can use an IntegerField or a UUIDField as the primary key for your eav models. You can also use the natural key for serialization instead of the primary key.

Installation

Install with pip

pip install django-eav2

Configuration

Add eav to INSTALLED_APPS in your settings.

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'eav',
]

Add django.db.models.UUIDField or django.db.models.BigAutoField as value of PRIMARY_KEY_FIELD in your settings

PRIMARY_KEY_FIELD = "django.db.models.UUIDField" # as exemple

Note: Primary key mandatory modification field

If the primary key of eav models are to be modified (UUIDField -> BigAutoField, BigAutoField -> UUIDField) in the middle of the project when the migrations are already done, you have to change the value of PRIMARY_KEY_FIELD in your settings.

Step 1

Change the value of PRIMARY_KEY_FIELD into django.db.models.CharField in your settings.

PRIMARY_KEY_FIELD = "django.db.models.CharField"

Run the migrations

python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

Step 2

Change the value of PRIMARY_KEY_FIELD into the desired value (django.db.models.BigAutoField or django.db.models.UUIDField) in your settings.

PRIMARY_KEY_FIELD = "django.db.models.BigAutoField" # as exemple

Run again the migrations.

 python manage.py makemigrations
 python manage.py migrate

Note: Django 2.2 Users

Since models.JSONField() isn't supported in Django 2.2, we use django-jsonfield-backport to provide JSONField functionality.

This requires adding django_jsonfield_backport to your INSTALLED_APPS as well.

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'eav',
    'django_jsonfield_backport',
]

Getting started

Step 1. Register a model:

import eav
eav.register(Supplier)

or with decorators:

from eav.decorators import register_eav

@register_eav
class Supplier(models.Model):
    ...

Step 2. Create an attribute:

Attribute.objects.create(name='City', datatype=Attribute.TYPE_TEXT)

Step 3. That’s it! You’re ready to go:

supplier.eav.city = 'London'
supplier.save()

Supplier.objects.filter(eav__city='London')
# = <EavQuerySet [<Supplier: Supplier object (1)>]>

For futher information? Check out the django eav2 documentation.

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