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Using Django Rest Framework to ease csv generation
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| from django.db import models | |
| class SomeModel(models.Model): | |
| email = models.EmailField() | |
| first_name = models.CharField(max_length=50) | |
| last_name = models.CharField(max_length=50) |
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| from rest_framework import serializers | |
| from .models import SomeModel | |
| class SomeModelSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer): | |
| class Meta: | |
| model = SomeModel | |
| fields = ( | |
| 'email', | |
| 'first_name', | |
| 'last_name', | |
| ) |
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| import csv | |
| from django.views.generic import View | |
| from django.http import HttpResponse | |
| from .serializers import SomeModelSerializer | |
| from .models import SomeModel | |
| class SomeModelCSVExportView(View): | |
| serializer_class = SomeModelSerializer | |
| def get_serializer(self, queryset, many=True): | |
| return self.serializer_class( | |
| queryset, | |
| many=many, | |
| ) | |
| def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs): | |
| response = HttpResponse(content_type='text/csv') | |
| response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename="export.csv"' | |
| serializer = self.get_serializer( | |
| SomeModel.objects.all(), | |
| many=True | |
| ) | |
| header = SomeModelSerializer.Meta.fields | |
| writer = csv.DictWriter(response, fieldnames=header) | |
| writer.writeheader() | |
| for row in serializer.data: | |
| writer.writerow(row) | |
| return response |
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this just helped me to solve some issues I was having