This project allows you to use the django admin interface on google appengine without using django-norel or other wierd hacks. This is a set of tools such as a custom ModelAdmin and AdminSite which work with appengine instead of against it.

Who Should Use This? ===================

Since this involves very little hacking it should be suitable for small projects. But if you need to view > 1000 objects you should really think twice as the django admin is not designed for your large dataset.

Also if you want a quick way to have oauth support for your app and don't care about the admin stuff the auth app works standalone. This is based off the work of git://github.com/mikeknapp/AppEngine-OAuth-Library

• list_display
• list_filter (BooleanProperty only)
• list_per_page
• form
• exclude
• fields
• fieldsets
• list_display_links
• readonly_fields

In the works:

• inline forms
• search
• actions
• more?

Install the gae_django app in the root of your Appengine project or on the sys.path somewhere in it. Use Django like normal except use google db.Model/properties.

settings:

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'gae_django.db.gae', 
        'NAME': '', 
        'USER': '',
        'PASSWORD': '',
        'HOST': '',
        'PORT': '',
    }
}

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.sites',
    'gae_django.admin',
    'gae_django.auth',
]

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = [
    'gae_django.auth.backend.GAEBackend', 
    'gae_django.auth.backend.GAETwitterBackend'
]

SESSION_ENGINE = 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache'
MESSAGE_STORAGE = 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage'
SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST = True

CACHES = {
    'default': {
        'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.MemcachedCache',
        'TIMEOUT': 3600*24*2, # Two Weeks
    }
}

To use memcache in appengine simply add a module in your root called memcache.py that just imports googles memcache:

from google.appengine.api.memcache import *

In your urls.py add the following:

from gae_django import admin
admin.autodiscover()
urlpatterns = patterns('',
   url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
   ...
)

In your apps just add the admin.py module like this:

from gae_django import admin

from models import ModelOne, ModelTwo

admin.site.register(ModelOne, list_display=['field_one', 'field_two'])

class OtherWay(admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_display = ['field_one', 'field_two']

admin.site.register(ModelTwo, OtherWay)

Now setup a user for yourself and go to town, this is slightly more tricky as you'll need to have an User object that is a superuser and all that. In the future we'll have an easy way to do that as well. For now use the good ol google admin page located at http://localhost:8080/_ah/admin/