Preambula

QtDjango is library to connect to django-piston powered server and use it's models in PyQt application

Downloads

PyPi page

Installing

easy_install qtdjango

Using

Server side

Models modification

First of all, you need make some modifications of your models. Replace this line in every models.py file:

from django.db import models

by lines:

try:
    from django.db import models
except ImportError:
    from qtdjango import models

Then, install django-piston and add qtdjango. Add to your settings.py: INSTALLED_APPS += 'qtdjango.django_qtdjango' #list of apps that must be passed throught qtdjango api QTDJANGO_APPS = ( "list", "of", "apps")

Add to your urls.py: urlpatterns = patterns( #.... some urls .... #qtdjango api url (r'^api/', include('qtdjango.django_qtdjango.urls')), )

That's all with server-side

Client side

Models

Import you models transparently from you django application package:

from qtdjango.models import load_from_django
models = load_from_django("your base package of server", ["list","of","application","names"])

from qtdjango.modelsmanager import ModelsManager

ADDRESS = "http://127.0.0.1:8000"
API_PATH= "/api/"
mm = ModelsManager(ADDRESS, API_PATH, "/path/to/your/django/project", \
                          ["list", "of", "apps"],)

current_module =__import__(__name__)
mm.do_models_magic_with_module(current_module)

Then, mm object will load models from django server. You could create some module, for example, models.py in your PyQt client applications, and put in it that code. Then, you will coult access to model classes like from models import MyModel

You will can sealessly throuth net make django-like calls:

MyModel.get(1).one_field
x = MyModel.filter("one_field"=12,"foreinkeyfield__foreign_keys_field"="some value")
x[0].foreingkeyfield.foreing_keys_field