dj-myghanta

dj-myghanta is a Django app to allow end users to create timestamp model field for MySQL.

Installation

• Install it through pip

  pip install dj-myghanta
  

• Download and install manually

  git clone https://github.com/paytm/dj-myghanta.git
  cd dj-myghanta
  python setup.py install
  

Use

• Add myghanta in your INSTALLED_APPS like

  INSTALLED_APPS = (
      ...
      'myghanta',
  )
  

• Now import it in your models like

  from myghanta.fields import MysqlTimeStampField
  

• Create fields like

  # auto_now_add = True creates `created_at` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
  created_at = MysqlTimestamp(auto_now_add=True)
  
  # auto_now = True creates `updated_at` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
  updated_at = MysqlTimestamp(auto_now=True)
  

Known Issues/ ToDo

• Works only for Mysql . Tested on mysql 5.6, 5.7