django-hashid-field 1.0.0

Features

• Stores IDs as integers in the database

• Allows lookups and filtering by either integer, hashid string or Hashid object

• Can be used as sort key

• Can drop-in replace an existing IntegerField (HashidField) or AutoField (HashidAutoField)

• Allows specifying a salt globally

• Supports custom salt, min_length and alphabet settings per field

Installation

Install the package (preferably in a virtualenv):

$ pip install django-hashid-field

Add it to your model

from hashid_field import HashidField

class Book(models.Model):
    reference_id = HashidField()

Migrate your database

$ ./manage.py makemigrations
$ ./manage.py migrate

Upgrading

Please see the Change Log

Basic Usage

Use your field like you would any other, for the most part. You can assign integers:

>>> b = Book()
>>> b.reference_id = 123
>>> b.reference_id
Hashid(123): OwLxW8D

You can assign valid hashids. It’s valid only if it can be decoded into an integer based on your salt:

>>> b.reference_id = 'r8636LO'
>>> b.reference_id
Hashid(456): r8636LO

You can access your field with either integers, hashid strings or Hashid objects:

>>> Book.objects.filter(reference_id=123)
<QuerySet [<Book:  (OwLxW8D)>]>
>>> Book.objects.filter(reference_id='OwLxW8D')
<QuerySet [<Book:  (OwLxW8D)>]>
>>> b = Book.objects.get(reference_id='OwLxW8D')
>>> b
<Book:  (OwLxW8D)>
>>> h = b.reference_id
>>> h
Hashid(123): OwLxW8D
>>> Book.objects.filter(reference_id=h)
<Book:  (OwLxW8D)>

The objects returned from a HashidField are an instance of the class Hashid, and allow basic access to the original integer or the hashid:

>>> from hashid_field import Hashid
>>> h = Hashid(123)
>>> h.id
123
>>> h.hashid
'Mj3'
>>> print(h)
Mj3
>>> repr(h)
'Hashid(123): Mj3'

Hashid Auto Field

Along with HashidField there is also a HashidAutoField that works in the same way, but that auto-increments.

from hashid_field import HashidAutoField

class Book(models.Model):
    serial_id = HashidAutoField()

The only difference is that if you don’t assign a value to it when you save, it will auto-generate a value from your database, just as an AutoField would do:

>>> b = Book()
>>> b.save()
>>> b.serial_id
Hashid(1): AJEM7LK

It can be dropped into an existing model that has an auto-created AutoField (all models do by default) as long as you give it primary_key=True. So if you have this model:

class Author(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=40)

Then Django has created a field for you called ‘id’ automatically. We just need to override that by specifying our own field with primary_key set to True.

class Author(models.Model):
    id = HashidAutoField(primary_key=True)
    name = models.CharField(max_length=40)

And now you can use the ‘id’ or ‘pk’ attributes on your model instances:

>>> a = Author.objects.create(name="John Doe")
>>> a.id
Hashid(60): N8VNa8z
>>> Author.objects.get(pk='N8VNa8z')
<Author: Author object>

Settings

HASHID_FIELD_SALT

You can optionally set a global Salt to be used by all HashFields and HashidAutoFields in your project, or set the salt on each individual field.

Type:

string

Default:

“”

Example:

HASHID_FIELD_SALT = "a long and secure salt value that is not the same as settings.SECRET_KEY"

Field Parameters

Besides the standard field options, there are 3 settings you can tweak that are specific to HashidField and AutoHashidField.

Please note that changing any of these values will affect the obfuscation of the integers that are stored in the database, and will change what are considered “valid” hashids. If you have links or URLs that include your HashidField values, then they will stop working after changing any of these values. It’s highly advised that you don’t change any of these settings once you publish any references to your field.

Hashid Class

Operations with a HashidField or HashidAutoField return a Hashid object. This simple class does the heavy lifting of converting integers and hashid strings back and forth. There shouldn’t be any need to instantiate these manually.