Question

I’d like to integrate django Databrowse into my application.

It comes down to pointing to databrowse urls from within template or view for enhanced drill down functionality of the databrowse.

Is there an easy way to extract the url from a databrowse object?

Answer 1

Ended up writing mixin class that fetches relevant EasyInstance and reuses the url() of it:

from django.contrib.databrowse.datastructures import EasyModel
from django.contrib.databrowse import site   

class DatabrowseMixin:
     def url(pyClass):
          if not site.root_url:
               #hack, but root_url is not set until the first databrowse view
               #and resolving urlconf does not work either
               site.root_url = '/databrowse/' 

          easy_model = EasyModel(site, pyClass.__class__)
          obj = easy_model.object_by_pk(pyClass.pk)

          return obj.url()

class MyModel(models.Model, DatabrowseMixin):
     ...

Now in my templates I can reuse my_model_instance.url tag pointing to databrowse object url.