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Web Development with Django

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Product type Book
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839212505
Pages 826 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (5):
Ben Shaw Ben Shaw
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Saurabh Badhwar Saurabh Badhwar
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Andrew Bird Andrew Bird
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Bharath Chandra K S Bharath Chandra K S
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Chris Guest Chris Guest
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface
1. Introduction to Django 2. Models and Migrations 3. URL Mapping, Views, and Templates 4. Introduction to Django Admin 5. Serving Static Files 6. Forms 7. Advanced Form Validation and Model Forms 8. Media Serving and File Uploads 9. Sessions and Authentication 10. Advanced Django Admin and Customizations 11. Advanced Templating and Class-Based Views 12. Building a REST API 13. Generating CSV, PDF, and Other Binary Files 14. Testing 15. Django Third-Party Libraries 16. Using a Frontend JavaScript Library with Django

Registering the Reviews Model

Let's say that Carol is tasked with improving the Reviews section in Bookr; that is, only the most relevant and comprehensive reviews should be shown, and duplicate or spammy entries should be removed. For this, she will need access to the reviews model. As we have seen above with our investigation of groups and users, the admin app already contains admin pages for the models from the authentication and authorization app, but it does not yet reference the models in our Reviews app.

To make the admin app aware of the models, we need to explicitly register them with the admin app. Fortunately, we don't need to modify the admin app's code to do so as we can instead import the admin app into our project and use its API to register our models. This has already been done in the authentication and authorization app, so let's try it with our Reviews app. Our aim is to be able to use the admin app to edit the data in our reviews model.

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