django-comments-xtd

A Django pluggable application that adds comments to your project. It extends the once official Django Comments Framework.

Features

  1. Thread support, so comments can be nested.

  2. Customizable maximum thread level, either for all models or on a per app.model basis.

  3. Optional notifications on follow-up comments via email.

  4. Mute links to allow cancellation of follow-up notifications.

  5. Comment confirmation via email when users are not authenticated.

  6. Comments hit the database only after they have been confirmed.

  7. Registered users can like/dislike comments and can suggest comments removal.

  8. Template tags to list/render the last N comments posted to any given list of app.model pairs.

  9. Emails sent through threads (can be disable to allow other solutions, like a Celery app).

  10. Fully functional JavaScript plugin using ReactJS, jQuery, Bootstrap, Remarkable and MD5.

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Getting started

Start with these documents to get you up and running:

Advanced Use

Once you’ve got django-comments-xtd working, you may want to know more about specific features, or check out the use cases to see how others customize it.

Change Log

[2.9.13] - 2023-12-22

  • Fixes issue related to missing frontend files within the package distribution.

[2.9.12] - 2023-12-22

  • Fixes issue 407:: ReadCommentSerializer.get_submit_date does not properly use DATETIME_FORMAT setting.

  • Adds the new setting COMMENTS_XTD_API_DATETIME_FORMAT.

[2.9.11] - 2023-12-11

  • Adds support for Django 5.0.

[2.9.10] - 2023-07-08

  • Updates ReactJS plugin. It has been rewritten to use React Hooks.

  • Add tests to cover over 90% functionality of the JavaScript plugin.

  • Replaces Webpack with Rollup to create the JavaScript bundle.

  • Updates the UI to use Bootstrap 5.3.0.

  • Updates the demo sites to Bootstrap 5.3.0.

  • Extends python tests to Django 4.2 using Python 3.11.

  • Updates the docs.

[2.9.9] - 2022-10-26

  • Extends compatibility to django-rest-framework v3.14.

[2.9.8] - 2022-09-18

  • Fixes issue 377: content_object is missing in followup notification. View notify_comment_followers has been updated to include content_object in the context of templates it uses: email_followup_comment.txt and email_followup_comment.html.

  • Update translation files to the latest strings found in templates. Next step is to include appropriate translations. See PR #379.

[2.9.7] - 2022-07-08

  • Allows to customize the json object returned by the get_commentbox_props template tag. Define the new setting COMMENTS_XTD_COMMENTBOX_CLASS as the string path to the class that will return the JSON object. It defaults to the class django_comments_xtd.api.frontend.CommentBoxDriver.

[2.9.5] - 2021-12-14

  • Adds compatibility with Django v4.

  • Fixes issue #358: Missing closing <form> tag in the dislike.html template.

[2.9.4] - 2021-11-11

  • Fixes issue #333 produced when using django-comments-xtd with Django 3.2 with MySQL/MariaDB. The issue raises when calling ‘update()’ on queries with ‘sorted_by’, as it is the case of the default ‘objects’ manager of XtdComment.

  • App translation to Simplified Chinesse thanks to @galeo.

  • Fixes issue #334 related to defaults for DRF views. See the PR-338. Thanks to @PetrDlouhy.

  • Improve command ‘populate_xtdcomments’ to output using the stdout attribute of the BaseCommand.

[2.9.3] - 2021-09-22

  • Fixes issue in ‘models.publish_or_unpublish_nested_comments’, when calling the update method on an empty QuerySet. See issue #318. Thanks to @abiatarfestus, @ironworld and @Khoding.

  • Enhance the queryset in notify_comment_followers using distinct when possible. And fallback to the previous queryset when distinct is not supported, as is the case for sqlite. See issue #326. Thanks to @enzedonline.

[2.9.2] - 2021-06-19

  • Fixes issue with nested_count XtdComment’s attribute being wrongly computed when comment threads are more than 2 level deep and have more than 1 thread. See PR-312.

  • Resolves limitation in API views. Avoid using explicit XtdComment model and rather use the get_model function to allow using customized comment models with API. See PR-313. Thanks to @r4fek.

  • Enhance comment form initialization, so that original fields are not override but rather only some of its attributes. See PR-315. Thanks to @dest81.

[2.9.1] - 2021-04-25

  • Fixes issue when the ‘sent’ view does not receive a ‘c’ query string parameter. See PR-305. Thanks to @dest81.

[2.9.0] - 2021-03-20

  • Drops support for Django 2.0 and 2.1.

  • Requires django-contrib-comments >= 2.1, and djangorestframework >= 3.12.

  • Fixes warning when generating the OpenAPI schema. Thanks to @ivanychev. See PR-296.

  • Fixes issue with render_xtdcomment_tree templatetag, thanks to @dest81. See PR-295.

  • Fixes issue #291, about the frontend plugin not being aware of the setting COMMENTS_XTD_DEFAULT_FOLLOWUP. It also fixes the content of the login_url props attribute. Its value is now the content of settings.LOGIN_URL.

  • Fixes issue #284, about sending a comment twice by clicking the comment send button twice. It happened when not using the JavaScript plugin.

[2.8.5] - 2021-03-02

  • Fixes issue #292 with the workflow upload-pypi.yml, that caused the package bundle to be built without JavaScript files.

[2.8.4] - 2021-02-28

  • Adds Italian translation (thanks to @dlrsp-dev).

  • Fixes issue #279, about a syntax mistake in the get_flags function, in the models.py module. Thanks to @manisar2.

  • Fixes issue #271, about an issue with django-comments-xtd data migration 0008. The fix consists of making the migration non-effective. It also requires that the django project developer runs the management command initialize_nested_count manually, so that the field nested_count of XtdComment gets populated with the correct value. The command is idempotent. Thanks to @jxcl.

[2.8.3] - 2021-02-07

  • Adds new setting COMMENTS_XTD_DEFAULT_FOLLOWUP, which is used to initialise the follow-up form field. By default its value is False. Thanks to @drholera. Closes ticket #206.

  • Fixes issue #274, about wrong validation of fields name and email in the WriteCommentSerializer. Thanks to @dest81.

[2.8.2] - 2021-01-24

  • Fixes issue #248, about the API returning comments’ submit_date in UTC when the setting USE_TZ is enabled and a different TIME_ZONE is given. Thanks to @Loneattic.

  • Fixes issue #250, which reports that using the web API to post a comment with a reply_to field that would break the max_thread_level should not produce an exception but rather a controlled response with an appropriate HTTP code. Thanks to @impythonista.

  • Fixes issue #255, about the web API not returning the comment ID when creating a new comment. Thanks to @mhoonjeon.

  • Fixes issue #256, about an issue in the JavaScript plugin that displays the “reply” link even when the max_thread_level has been reached. Thanks to @odescopi.

[2.8.1] - 2020-10-16

  • Fixes issue #80, that requests to change the response when clicking more than once on a comment confirmation link. Up until now clicking more than once on a comment confirmation link produced a HTTP 404 response. Since version 2.8.1 the response is the same as for the first click: the user is redirected to the comment’s view in the page. Thanks to @ppershing.

  • Fixes issue #152, about loading the staticfiles templatetag instead of static. Since Django v3.0 the staticfiles app requires using the latter. Thanks to @JonLevy and @mennucc.

  • Fixes issue #221, about the get_version function. Now it returns the full version number <major>.<minor>.<patch>. Thanks to @mckinly.

  • Fixes issue #229, about failing to process empty honeypot field when posting comments using the REST API. Thanks to @TommasoAmici.

[2.8.0] - 2020-09-26

  • Fixes issue #106, which is about computing the number of nested comments for every comment at every level down the tree. The fix consists of adding a new field called nested_count to the XtdComment model. Its value represents the number of threaded comments under itself. A new management command, initialize_nested_count, can be used to update the value of the field, the command is idempotent. Two new migrations have been added: migration 0007 adds the new field, and migration 0008 calls the initialize_nested_count command to populate the nested_count new field with correct values.

  • Fixes issue #215 about running the tests with Django 3.1 and Python 3.8.

[2.7.2] - 2020-09-08

  • Fixes issue #208, about the JavaScript plugin not displaying the like and dislike buttons and the reply link when django-comments-xtd is setup to allow posting comments only to registered users (who_can_post: "users").

  • Fixes issue #212, about missing i18n JavaScript catalog files for Dutch, German and Russian.

[2.7.1] - 2020-08-12

  • Fixes issue #188, about loading a templatetags module not required for the application.

  • Fixes issue #196. When extending django-comments-xtd’s comment model, the receiver function that reviews whether nested comments have to be publish or unpublish is not called.

[2.7.0] - 2020-08-09

  • Enhancement, closing issue #155 (and #170), on how to post comments via the web API. Up until version 2.6.2 posting comments required the fields timestamp, security_hash and honeypot. As of 2.7.0 there is support allow Django REST Framework authentication classes: WriteCommentSerializer send the signal should_request_be_authorize that enables posting comments. Read the documentation about the web API.

  • Enhancement, closing issue #175 on how to customize django-comments-xtd so that user images displayed in comments come from other sources. A new setting COMMENTS_XTD_API_GET_USER_AVATAR has been added. The docs have been extended with a page that explains the use case in depth.

  • Fixes issue #171, on wrong permission used to decide whether a user is a moderator. The right permission is django_comments.can_moderate. (thanks to Ashwani Gupta, @ashwani99).

  • Fixes issue #136 on missing <link> element in the templates/base.html file distributed with the tutorial.tar.gz bundle.

[2.6.2] - 2020-07-05

  • Adds Dutch translation (thanks to Jean-Paul Ladage, @jladage).

  • Adds Russian translation (thanks to Михаил Рыбкин, @MikerStudio).

  • Fixesissue #140, which adds the capacity to allow only registered users to post comments.

  • Fixesissue #149, on wrong SQL boolean literal value used when running special command populate_xtdcomments to load Postgres database with xtdcomments.

  • Fixes issue #154, on using string formatting compatible with Python versions prior to 3.6.

  • Fixes issue #156, on wrong props name poll_interval. JavaScript plugin expects the use of polling_interval while the api/frontend.py module referred to it as poll_interval. (thanks to @ashwani99).

  • Fixes issue #159, about using the same id for all the checkboxes in the comment list. When ticking one checkbox in a nested form the checkbox of the main form was ticked. Now each checkbox has a different id, suffixed with the content of the reply_to field.

[2.6.1] - 2020-05-13

  • Fixes issue #150, about wrong protocol in the URL when fetching avatar images from gravatar.

[2.6.0] - 2020-05-12

  • Fixes issue #145, on inadequate number of SQL queries used by API entry point comments-xtd-api-list, available in the URL /comments/api/<content-type>/<object-pk>/. The issue also happened when rendering the comments using tags get_xtdcomment_tree and render_xtdcomment_tree. It has been fixed in both cases too.

  • Updates the JSON schema of the output retrieved by the API entry point comments-xtd-api-list. Thus the version number change. The flags attribute of each retrieved is now a list of flags instead of a summary for each the flags: “I like it”, “I dislike it”, “suggest removal”.

[2.5.1] - 2020-04-27

  • Fixes issue #138, on unpublishing a single comment with public nested comments. The fix consists of a new pre_save receiver that will either publish or unpublish nested comments when a comment changes its is_public attribute. (thanks to @hematinik).

[2.5.0] - 2020-04-22

  • Fixes issue #144 regarding the size of the JavaScript bundle. The new JavaScript plugin does not include React and ReactDOM. The two libraries have to be loaded with an external script.

  • Update the dependencies of the JavaScript plugin.

[2.4.3] - 2020-01-26

  • Fixes issue on the ContentType that happens when sending post request with empty data. (PR: #137) (thanks to @dvorberg).

  • Adds German translations, (thanks to @dvorberg).

[2.4.2] - 2019-12-25

  • Adds Django 3.0 compatibility thanks to Sergey Ivanychev (@ivanychev).

  • Adds Norwegian translations thanks to Yngve Høiseth (@yhoiseth).

[2.4.1] - 2019-09-30

  • Allow changing the d parameter when requesting a gravatar, thanks to @pylixm (PR: #100).

  • Avoid requiring the SITE_ID, thanks to @gassan (PR: #125).

[2.4.0] - 2019-02-19

New minor release thanks to Mandeep Gill with the following changes:

  • Adds support for non-int based object_pk, for instead when using UUIDs or HashIds as the primary key on a model (closes #112).

  • Refactors the commentbox props generation into a separate function so can be used from the webapi for use with rest-framework/API-only backends that don’t make use of server-side templates.

  • Adds a pyproject.yaml for use with poetry and new pip environments (PEP 518).

[2.3.1] - 2019-01-08

  • Fixes issue #116.

  • Updates package.json JavaScript dependencies:

    • babel-cli from 6.24.1 to 6.26.0.

    • jquery from 3.2.1 to 3.3.1.

[2.3.0] - 2018-11-29

  • Upgrades Twitter-Bootstrap from v3 to v4.

  • Fixes issue with tutorial fixtures (bug #114).

  • Upgrade all JavaScript dependencies. Check packages.json for details. The major changes are:

    • ReactJS updates from 15.5 to 16.5.

    • Babel updates from 6 to 7.

    • Webpack from 2.4.1 to 4.21.0.

    • Bootstrap from 3.3.7 to 4.1.3.

  • Updates webpack.config.js.

  • Demo sites and tutorial have been adapted to Twitter Bootstrap v4.

  • Fixes issues #94, #108, #111.

[2.2.1] - 2018-10-06

  • Resolves deprecation warnings and adopt recommendations in unit tests.

  • Fixes demo sites so that they work with Django 1.11, Django 2.0 and Django 2.1.

[2.2.0] - 2018-08-12

  • Adds support for Django 2.1.

  • Drops support for Django < 1.11 as it depends on django-contrib-comments which dropped support too.

  • Fixes issue #104 (on lack of Django 2.1 support).

[2.1.0] - 2018-02-13

  • Fixes issues #76, #86 and #87.

  • Request user name and/or email address in case the user is logged in but the user’s email attribute is empty and/or the user’s get_full_name() method returns an empty string.

[2.0.10] - 2018-01-19

  • Adds Django 2.0 compatibility.

  • Fixes issues #81 and #83.

  • Replaces the use of django.test.client by RequestFactory in unittests.

[2.0.9] - 2017-11-09

  • Fix issue #77. Template filter xtd_comment_gravatar_url must not hard-code http schema in URL (reported by @pamost).

[2.0.8] - 2017-09-24

  • App translation to Finnish, thanks to Tero Tikkanen (@terotic).

[2.0.7] - 2017-09-20

  • Adds missing migration for a field’s label (issue #71).

  • Makes the form label for field name translatable (issue #73).

[2.0.6] - 2017-08-08

  • Code fixes to enable proper support for the Django Sites Framework.

  • Code fixes for the comp demo site.

  • Makes demo site dates in initial data files timezone aware.

  • Improves documentation on setting up demo sites.

  • Style changes in CSS wells.

[2.0.5] - 2017-07-20

  • Surpass version number to fix problem with package upload in PyPI.

  • No changes applied to this version.

[2.0.4] - 2017-07-19

  • Use django.core.signing with temporary comment passed in URL redirection.

  • Fix mistakes in documentation.

[2.0.3] - 2017-07-10

  • App translation to French thanks to Brice Gelineau.

  • Fixed MANIFEST.in file, so that files with translations are distributed.

[2.0.0] - 2017-06-04

  • Javascript plugin (based on ReactJS).

  • Web API to: * Create a comment for a given content type and object ID. * List comments for a given content type and object ID. * Send feedback flags (like/dislike) on comments. * Send report flag (removal suggestion) for a comment. * Template filter has_permission applicable to a user object and accepting a string specifying the app_label.permission being checked. It returns True if the user has the given permission, otherwise returns False.

  • Setting COMMENTS_XTD_API_USER_REPR defines a lambda function to return the user string representation used by the web API in response objects.

  • Setting COMMENTS_XTD_APP_MODEL_PERMISSIONS to explicitly define what commenting features are enabled on per app.model basis.

  • Templates comments/delete.html and comments/deleted.html matching django-comments-xtd default twitter-bootstrap styling.

  • Dependencies on Python packages: djangorestframework.

  • Supports i18n for English and Spanish.

  • All settings namespaced inside the COMMENTS_XTD setting.

  • Management command to migrate comments from django-contrib-comments to django-comments-xtd.

  • Enable removal link in django_comments_xtd/comment_tree.html when the user has the permission django_comments.can_moderate.

  • Changed, when the user logged has django_comments.can_moderate permission, template django_comments_xtd/comment_tree.html will show the number of removal suggestions a comment has received.

  • Changed, when a comment is marked as removed by a moderator (using django-comments’ comments-delete url) every nested comment below the one removed is unpublished (is_public attribute is turned to False).

  • Changed view helper functions, perform_like+` and ``perform_dislike now returns a boolean indicating whether a flag was created. If True the flag has been created. If False the flag has been deleted. These two functions behave as toggle functions.

  • Changed templates comments/preview.html, comments/flag.html and comments/flagged.hml.

  • Removed dependency on django-markup.

  • Removed template filter render_markup_comment.

  • Removed setting MARKUP_FALLBACK_FILTER.