A pluggable app that allows admins to execute SQL and view and export the results. Inspired by Stack Exchange Data Explorer.
Project description
Django SQL Explorer
Django SQL Explorer is inspired by Stack Exchange’s [Data Explorer](http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/queries) and is designed to make the flow of data between people in your company fast, simple, and confusion-free. Quickly write and share SQL queries in a clean, usable query builder, preview the results in the browser, share links to download CSV files, and keep the information flowing baby!
django-sql-explorer is MIT licensed, and pull requests are welcome!
Features
- Enforces Read-Only
SQL blacklist so destructive queries don’t get executed (delete, drop, update etc). This is not bulletproof and it’s recommended that you instead configure a read-only database role, but when not possible the blacklist provides reasonable protection.
- Multiple DB Backends
100% built on Django’s ORM, so works with Postgresql, Mysql, and Sqlite.
- Ad-Hoc Querying
Just want to get in and write some ad-hoc queries? Go nuts with the Playground area.
- Schema Helper
/explorer/schema/ will dump a list of your Django apps’ table and column names that you can refer to while writing queries. Apps are excludable from this list so users aren’t bogged down in tons of irrelevant tables.
- Mass Export
Download multiple queries at once as a zip file through Django’s admin interface via a built-in admin action.
- Zero Dependencies
Other than Django and front-end libraries. More detail below.
Reasonably Good Test Coverage
Install
Requires Python 2.7.
This has been tested only with Django 1.6, however it should work back to 1.4. Please report an issue if you encounter problems on earlier versions of Django.
Install with pip from github:
pip install django-sql-explorer
Add to your installed_apps:
INSTALLED_APPS = (
...
'explorer',
...
)
Add the following to your urls.py (all Explorer URLs are restricted to staff only):
url(r'^explorer/', include('explorer.urls')),
Run syncdb to create the tables (well…just one table really):
python manage.py syncdb
Browse to https://yoursite/explorer/ and get exploring!
Dependencies
An effort has been made to require no packages other than Django. However a number of front-end dependencies do exist and are documented below. All front-end dependencies are served from CDNJS.com
Name |
Version |
License |
|---|---|---|
[Twitter Boostrap](http://getbootstrap.com/) |
3.0.3 |
MIT |
[jQuery](http://jquery.com/) |
2.0.3 |
MIT |
[Underscore](http://underscorejs.org/) |
1.5.2 |
MIT |
[Codemirror](http://codemirror.net/) |
3.19.0 |
MIT |
[floatThead](http://mkoryak.github.io/floatThead/)[1] |
1.2.0 |
Creative Commons |
[1] Served locally because this is not available on cdnjs
Factory Boy is needed if you’d like to run the tests, which can you do easily:
python manage.py test
Settings
Setting |
Description |
Default |
|---|---|---|
EXPLORER_SQL_BLACKLIST |
Disallowed words in SQL queries to prevent destructive actions. |
(‘ALTER’, ‘RENAME ‘, ‘DROP’, ‘TRUNCATE’, ‘INSERT INTO’, ‘UPDATE’, ‘REPLACE’, ‘DELETE’) |
EXPLORER_SQL_WHITELIST |
These phrases are allowed, even though part of the phrase appears in the blacklist. |
(‘DROP FUNCTION’, ‘REPLACE FUNCTION’, ‘DROP VIEW’, ‘REPLACE VIEW’, ‘CREATED’, ‘DELETED’) |
EXPLORER_DEFAULT_ROWS |
The number of rows to show by default in the preview pane. |
100 |
EXPLORER_SCHEMA_EXCLUDE_APPS |
Don’t show schema for these apps in /schema/. This is helpful to clear out cruft that users realistically won’t want to refer to for reference. |
(‘’,) # No apps are excluded |
Release history Release notifications | RSS feed
Download files
Download the file for your platform. If you're not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages.
Source Distribution
Hashes for django-sql-explorer-0.1.1.tar.gz
| Algorithm | Hash digest | |
|---|---|---|
| SHA256 | a61cc32eff7438568d045ae7259bf32382f4e209488b203ce119bdf316d3d7ca |
|
| MD5 | 09ff18ff0c8c27c633b5b4ff82d96aaf |
|
| BLAKE2b-256 | fee7caf19db263db310c5fd43815eeb79b8e80ea967c7045ddb6afd651cbb7c1 |
