Django 1.2 Features

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This page lists features which have been proposed for development/inclusion in Django 1.2. So far no decisions have been made regarding any of these features. See Version1.2Roadmap for information on the process and definition of terms.

Features under consideration

• Multi-database support (Alex Gaynor's GSoC project)
• Admin UI Enhancements (Zain Memon's GSoC project)
• Improved/reworked CsrfProtection (see #9977, #10816)
• i18n improvements (Marc Garcia's GSoC project)
• Add {% doctype %} and {% field %} template tags from ​http://github.com/simonw/django-html/
• Add support for Signing and Signed Cookies
• Integrate the Python standard library logging module with Django
• Replace get_absolute_url() with methods that are more useful and have more realistic names ReplacingGetAbsoluteUrl
• Smarter {% if %} tag from ​http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1350/
• Syndication feed views and better Atom support: ​http://github.com/bfirsh/syndication-view/
• Search support in the ORM: ​http://github.com/bfirsh/django/tree/search
• Support for non-relational databases: Tokyo Cabinet/Tyrant, MongoDB, Cassandra, Google Bigtable (AppEngine, #10192), Amazon SimpleDB, CouchDB, etc
• Add a method to the orm to create Model instances from raw sql queries (useful when the orm is limiting you) (#11863)
• Add a generic "official" way to create a REST API; so far there are quite a bunch of pluggables, with varying levels of "completeness", documentation and efficiency, and they're quite hard to choose from.
• Make easier to mantain / deploy default settings.py by either:
  • include localsettings at the end, with the recommended approach of putting DATABASE_* settings in localsettings.py
  • or: if DEBUG: { some database settings } else: { other database settings }
• integrate some DVCS in django-admin.py, perhaps Mercurial or Git. This would make it easier to adopt and collaborate on Django projects. (This is stolen from Rails)
• show all SQL commands issued in the development server, for debugging purposes, perhaps only if DEBUG=true (another one stolen from Rails / Mongrel)
• Complete comment moderation by documenting existing approval process (#9819) and/or by adding admin actions (#11625) to the CommentsAdmin.
• Extra template tags and filters (​http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_thread/thread/2045a50970d6a883)
• Replace get_absolute_url (​http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/ReplacingGetAbsoluteUrl)
• Make working with inline formsets easier (​http://stackoverflow.com/questions/442040/pre-populate-an-inline-formset, as per James: ...the way the model formsets work just make this more trouble than it's usually worth, but with a bit of API cleanup I think it could be made extremely easy., also ​http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_thread/thread/f9aae709a7fda689)
• Allow inclusion of inlines in fieldsets (admin)
• Add South (​http://south.aeracode.org/) or some other migration/evolution app to contrib (​http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/SchemaEvolution)
• Add IBM DB2 django adapter (​http://code.google.com/p/ibm-db/wiki/ibm_db_django_README) to django.db.backends
• Easier conditional template tags (​http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1538/)
• #17 Identity mapping in the ORM (Work has been done to this end by David Cramer, here: ​http://github.com/dcramer/django-idmapper/tree/master)
• #342 Read-only form fields
• #373 Multi-part primary keys
• #399 Support 8-byte integer DB-fields (bigint)
• #494 Option for classes on admin inlines
• #7028, #7923 Improve the usability of raw_id_fields
• #2443 Implement DurationFields
• #3011 Allow for extendable auth_user module
• #3349, #6587 Better template tag loading
• #3512 Add "required" & "error" CSS classes to form rows in as_* methods
• #3569 Implement Atom Publishing Protocol
• #4604 Message Passing For Anonymous Users
• #4656 Full serialization
• #5833 Custom FilterSpecs
• #6148 Add support for database schemas
• #6262 Support caching compiled templates
• #6378 Capture arbitrary output as a template variable (or add a capture ttag)
• #6460 Multilingual Content in the db
• #6630 Fieldsets for newforms
• #6735 Class-based generic views
• #6845 Model validation (Honza Kral's GSoC project)
• #6903 Admin app: Go back to old change_list view after saving model instance
• #7052 dumpdata/loaddata: Support using lookup dictionaries as foreign keys in JSON/XML/YAML data dumps
• #7150 patch to implement view pemission in admin
• #7539 Add ON DELETE and ON UPDATE support
• #7806 django.template refactoring
• #8274 Auth views allow form override (as an example, this would allow usernames longer than 30 chars to be handled)
• #8896, #11647 Support for subdomains in the url patterns, to allow easy reversing (or better: to allow reversing at all ;))
• #9200 Session-based FormWizard
• #9289 Swedish (se) localflavor
• #10284 ModelFormSet - objects are deleted even if commit=False
• #10355 Add support for pluggable email backends.
• #10476 Support database-level autocommit mode in Postgresql <= 8.1
• #10587, #1480, #2626 Store datetime values as UTC, handle them consistently regardless of RDBMS, platform and make things easier for multi-timezone applications.
• #10752 Enhanced Bash Completion
• #10871 Support for input arguments on admin actions.
• #10923 Use thread-safe GEOS API if available
• #11010 Support row-level permissions by updating the User-Object and Authbackends, to take an optional object parameter, so 3rd party Apps can implement the functionality easily.
• #11402 exists() method on QuerySets
• #11463 Vietnamese translation
• #11156 Remove unnecessary savepoints with Oracle
• #11698 Add Django Debug Toolbar to contrib
• Make profiling easy, possibly by integrating profiling into Debug Toolbar (see dcramer's fork)
• #11526 LDAP authentication backend
• #11716 Fix unwrapped ValueErrors on AutoField and IntegerField (patch & tests already done!)

Lieutenants and Committers

The lieutenants and committers for each feature will be decided when the feature list is formalized.