Docs - Topic Guides

• How to install Django
  • Install Python
  • Install Apache andmod_wsgi
  • Get your database running
  • Remove any old versions of Django
  • Install the Django code
• Models and databases
  • Models
  • Making queries
  • Aggregation
  • Search
  • Managers
  • Performing raw SQL queries

for p in Person.objects.raw('SELECT * FROM myapp_person')
  print(p)

• Database transactions

• Multiple databases

• Tablespaces

• Database access optimization

• Database instrumentation

• Examples of model relationship API usage

• Handling HTTP requests

  • URL dispatcher
  • Writing views
  • View decorators
  • File Uploads
  • Django shortcut functions
  • Generic views
  • Middleware
  • How to use sessions

• Working with forms

  • HTML forms
  • Django's role in forms
  • Forms in Django
  • Building a form
  • More about DjangoFormclasses
  • Working with form templates
  • Further topics

• Templates

  • Support for template engines
  • The Django template language

• Class-based views

  • Introduction to class-based views
  • Built-in class-based generic views
  • Form handling with class-based views
  • Using mixins with class-based views
  • Basic examples
  • Simple usage in your URLconf
  • Subclassing generic views

• Migrations

  • The Commands
  • Backend Support
  • Workflow
  • Dependencies
  • Migration files
  • Adding migrations to apps
  • Historical models
  • Considerations when removing model fields
  • Data Migrations
  • Squashing migrations
  • Serializing values
  • Supporting multiple Django versions

• Managing files

  • Using files in models
  • TheFileobject
  • File storage

• Testing in Django

  • Writing and running tests
  • Testing tools
  • Advanced testing topics

• User authentication in Django

  • Overview
  • Installation
  • Usage

• Django's cache framework

  • Setting up the cache
  • The per-site cache
  • The per-view cache
  • Template fragment caching
  • The low-level cache API
  • Downstream caches
  • UsingVaryheaders
  • Controlling cache: Using other headers
  • Order ofMIDDLEWARE

• Conditional View Processing

  • Theconditiondecorator
  • Shortcuts for only computing one value
  • Using the decorators with other HTTP methods
  • Comparison with middleware conditional processing

• Cryptographic signing

  • Protecting theSECRET_KEY
  • Using the low-level API

• Sending email

  • Quick example
  • send_mail()
  • send_mass_mail()
  • mail_admins()
  • mail_managers()
  • Examples
  • Preventing header injection
  • TheEmailMessageclass
  • Email backends
  • Configuring email for development

• Internationalization and localization

  • Overview
  • Definitions

• Logging

  • A quick logging primer
  • Using logging
  • Configuring logging
  • Django's logging extensions
  • Django's default logging configuration

• Pagination

  • Example
  • UsingPaginatorin a view
  • Paginatorobjects
  • InvalidPageexceptions
  • Pageobjects

• Security in Django

  • Cross site scripting (XSS) protection
  • Cross site request forgery (CSRF) protection
  • SQL injection protection
  • Clickjacking protection
  • SSL/HTTPS
  • Host header validation
  • Session security
  • User-uploaded content
  • Additional security topics

• Performance and optimization

  • Introduction
  • General approaches
  • Caching
  • Understanding laziness
  • Databases
  • HTTP performance
  • Template performance
  • Using different versions of available software

• Serializing Django objects

  • Serializing data
  • Deserializing data
  • Serialization formats
  • Natural keys

• Django settings

  • The basics
  • Designating the settings
  • Default settings
  • Using settings in Python code
  • Altering settings at runtime
  • Security
  • Available settings
  • Creating your own settings
  • Using settings without settingDJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE

• Signals

  • Listening to signals
  • Defining and sending signals
  • Disconnecting signals

• System check framework

  • Writing your own checks

• External packages

  • Localflavor
  • Comments
  • Formtools

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/topics

How to Guides

• Authentication usingREMOTE_USER
• Writing customdjango-admincommands
• Writing custom model fields
• Custom Lookups
• Custom template tags and filters
• Writing a custom storage system
• Deploying Django
• Upgrading Django to a newer version
• Error reporting
• Providing initial data for models
• Django on Jython
• Integrating Django with a legacy database
• Outputting CSV with Django
• Outputting PDFs with Django
• Overriding templates
• Managing static files (e.g. images, JavaScript, CSS)
• Deploying static files
• How to install Django on Windows
• Writing database migrations

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/howto

API Reference

• Applications
• System check framework
• Built-in class-based views API
• Clickjacking Protection
• contribpackages
• Cross Site Request Forgery protection
• Databases
• django-adminandmanage.py
• Running management commands from your code
• Django Exceptions
• File handling
• Forms
• Middleware
• Migration Operations
• Models
• Request and response objects
• SchemaEditor
• Settings
• Signals
• Templates
• TemplateResponse and SimpleTemplateResponse
• Unicode data
• django.urlsutility functions
• django.urlsfunctions for use in URLconfs
• django.conf.urlsfunctions for use in URLconfs
• Django Utils
• Validators
• Built-in Views

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/ref

Management Command

class Command(BaseCommand):

 def add_arguments(self, parser):
  parser.add_argument(
   '--customer',
   action='store',
   dest='customer_name',
   default=None,
   help='Customer name for which device dump has to be generated'
  )

  parser.add_argument(
   '--only_upload_folder_name',
   action='store',
   dest='only_upload_folder_name',
   default=None,
   help="Set to true if generated files for a customer only need to be uploaded to drive"
  )

 def handle(self, *args, **options):
  customer_name = options ['customer_name']
  only_upload_folder_name = options ['only_upload_folder_name']