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Using Django¶

Introductions to all the key parts of Django you’ll need to know:

How to install Django
- Install Python
- Install Apache and mod_wsgi
- Get your database running
- Install the Django code
Models and databases
- Models
- Making queries
- Aggregation
- Search
- Managers
- Performing raw SQL queries
- Database transactions
- Multiple databases
- Tablespaces
- Database access optimization
- Database instrumentation
- Fixtures
- Examples of model relationship API usage
Handling HTTP requests
- URL dispatcher
- Writing views
- View decorators
- File Uploads
- Django shortcut functions
- Generic views
- Middleware
- How to use sessions
Working with forms
- HTML forms
- Django’s role in forms
- Forms in Django
- Building a form
- More about Django Form classes
- Working with form templates
- Further topics
Templates
- The Django template language
- Support for template engines
Class-based views
- Introduction to class-based views
- Built-in class-based generic views
- Form handling with class-based views
- Using mixins with class-based views
- Basic examples
- Usage in your URLconf
- Subclassing generic views
- Asynchronous class-based views
Migrations
- The Commands
- Backend Support
- Workflow
- Transactions
- Dependencies
- Migration files
- Adding migrations to apps
- Reversing migrations
- Historical models
- Considerations when removing model fields
- Data Migrations
- Squashing migrations
- Serializing values
- Supporting multiple Django versions
Managing files
- Using files in models
- The File object
- File storage
Testing in Django
- Writing and running tests
- Testing tools
- Advanced testing topics
User authentication in Django
- Overview
- Installation
- Usage
Django’s cache framework
- Setting up the cache
- The per-site cache
- The per-view cache
- Template fragment caching
- The low-level cache API
- Asynchronous support
- Downstream caches
- Using Vary headers
- Controlling cache: Using other headers
- Order of MIDDLEWARE
Conditional View Processing
- The condition decorator
- Shortcuts for only computing one value
- Using the decorators with other HTTP methods
- Comparison with middleware conditional processing
Cryptographic signing
- Protecting SECRET_KEY and SECRET_KEY_FALLBACKS
- Using the low-level API
Sending email
- Quick example
- send_mail()
- send_mass_mail()
- mail_admins()
- mail_managers()
- Examples
- Preventing header injection
- The EmailMessage class
- Email backends
- Configuring email for development
Internationalization and localization
- Overview
- Definitions
Logging
- Overview
- Security implications
- Configuring logging
Pagination
- The Paginator class
- Example
- Paginating a ListView
- Using Paginator in a view function
Security in Django
- Cross site scripting (XSS) protection
- Cross site request forgery (CSRF) protection
- SQL injection protection
- Clickjacking protection
- SSL/HTTPS
- Host header validation
- Referrer policy
- Cross-origin opener policy
- Session security
- User-uploaded content
- Additional security topics
Performance and optimization
- Introduction
- General approaches
- Caching
- Understanding laziness
- Databases
- HTTP performance
- Template performance
- Using different versions of available software
Serializing Django objects
- Serializing data
- Deserializing data
- Serialization formats
- Natural keys
Django settings
- The basics
- Designating the settings
- Default settings
- Using settings in Python code
- Altering settings at runtime
- Security
- Available settings
- Creating your own settings
- Using settings without setting DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE
Signals
- Listening to signals
- Defining and sending signals
- Disconnecting signals
System check framework
- Writing your own checks
External packages
- Localflavor
- Comments
- Formtools
Asynchronous support
- Async views
- Async safety
- Async adapter functions

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