django-firebase

A proxy for Firebase and Django model. With this package, you can:

• Use Django models to connect to Firebase Cloud Storage.
• You can also use these models on the admin page do Firebase operation: creating a new record, viewing a record.

Gotchas

• The Firebase schema must be strictly relational.
• Nested data structure is currently not supported.

What can be used

Admin page

• Listing all documents.
• Creating a new document.

Supported Model Operations:

• Model.objects.get()
• Model.objects.filter()
• Model.objects.exists()
• Model.objects.count()
• Model.objects.all()

The filters can be applied to model are ==.

Supported Fields:

• All fields that are not relational.
• For relational fields: ForeignKey.

Constraints

• Unique Constraints are supported.
• unique_together constraints are also supported.

How to use?

• Make your model to be a subclass of FirebaseModel.
• A prod_collection_name and a test_collection_name are required. prod_collection_name will be used when Django settings.DEBUG is False and vice versa.

from django.db import models

from django_firebase.models import FirebaseModel


class Teacher(FirebaseModel):
  prod_collection_name = 'teacher'
  test_collection_name = 'test_teacher'

  name = models.CharField(max_length=50)


class Student(FirebaseModel):
  prod_collection_name = 'student'
  test_collection_name = 'test_student'

  teacher = models.ForeignKey(Teacher, db_column='teacher', blank=False, on_delete=models.CASCADE)