pythondjangodjango-rest-frameworkaudit-loggingdjango-auditlog

auditlog with Django and DRF

I need to implement auditlog feature in one of my project which is using Django 1.8 and Django-Rest-Framework 3.2.2. I have extended BaseUserManager class to create user model since I had to use email as a username in my application ( if this information matters ).

Below is my db design which will hold logs :

**fields    type    desc**

id           pk      ( auto_increment)  
cust_id   FK  customer 
customer_name   FK  customer
user_id FK  user
user_name   FK  user
module  Varchar(100) sales,order,billing,etc
action  Varchar(10) Create/Update/Delete
previous_value  varchar(500)    
current_value   varchar(500)    
Datetime    Datetime    timestamp of change

I have tried https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-audit-log but it has 2 issues as per my requirement-

  1. It does not capture data as per my requirement which I understand is my issue and so I modified it's code and added my fields into it's model.
  2. It is not capturing module information. Behaviour is random.

I am seeking advice to proceed with this feature. Which package would be best suitable for my task.

P.S I have also tried Django-reversion and I have no requirement of data versioning.

Thanks

Solution

  • I achieved what I needed by modifying auditlog code -

    1. Added required field in LogEntry model of auditlog.
    2. Modified log_create,log_update,log_delete functions of receivers.py to save information in newly added fields.

    Using this I am halfway done. Now only issue I am facing is that since model instance of 1 table contains information of other tables as well due to FKs used in the table.

    To solve this I could come up with a solution which works well but I am not satisfied with it. I added a function like include_in_model() in each model and modified auditlog's registry.py register() function to get those fields and only use that to save information in LogEntry model.

    This approach will require me to create this include_in_model() function in each of my model class and pass required fields for particular model. This way I am avoiding FK related information.