django-jsoneditor-widget

django-jsoneditor-widget

Django form widget form JSONField

Demo

It look like this.

Install

• Install: pip install django-jsoneditor-widget
• Settings:

  INSTALLED_APPS = [
      # some apps ....
      'jsoneditor',
      # other apps ...
  ]
  

Create model

from django.db import models
from django.contrib.postgres.fields import JSONField


class Book(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=150)
    information = JSONField()

    def __str__(self):
        return self.name

Admin site settings

• Use ModelAdmin

  from django.contrib import admin
  
  from jsoneditor.admin import JSONFieldModelAdmin
  
  from .models import Book
  
  
  admin.site.register(Product, JSONFieldModelAdmin)
  

• Use mixin

  from django.contrib import admin
  
  from jsoneditor.admin import JSONFieldAdminMixin
  
  from .models import Book
  
  
  @admin.register(Book)
  class BookModelAdmin(JSONFieldAdminMixin, admin.ModelAdmin):
      pass
  

• Use custom widget to specify jsoneditor options

  from django.contrib import admin
  from django.contrib.postgres.fields import JSONField
  
  from jsoneditor.forms import JSONEditor
  
  from .models import Book
  
  
  class TextJSONEditor(JSONEditor):
      jsoneditor_options = {
          "mode": "text"
      }
  
  
  @admin.register(Book)
  class BookModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
      formfield_overrides = {
          JSONField: {"widget": TextJSONEditor}
      }