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Provide hints to optimize database usage by deferring unused fields

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Django Eraserhead
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Provide hints to optimize database usage by deferring unused fields

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*WARNING* use this package only in dev environment!

Documentation
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Requirements
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* Django 1.9+
* Python 2.7, 3.4+

Quickstart
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Install Django Eraserhead::

pip install django-eraserhead

Add it to your `INSTALLED_APPS`:

.. code-block:: python

INSTALLED_APPS = (
...
'eraserhead.apps.EraserheadConfig',
...
)

ERASERHEAD_ENABLED = True
ERASERHEAD_TRACEBACK_BASE_PATH = BASE_DIR


Settings:

* `ERASERHEAD_ENABLED` - enable/disable Django Eraserhead
* `ERASERHEAD_TRACEBACK_BASE_PATH` - set base path to filter tracebacks. Set to `None` to display full traceback.

Features
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.. image:: https://github.com/dizballanze/django-eraserhead/raw/master/screenshot.png

Django Eraserhead monitors:

* querysets/models fields usage (used and unused fields) with considering deferred fields
* count of instances created for each queryset
* corresponding model of each queryset
* traceback for each queryset to easily find corresponding code
* calculate memory consumption of unused fields

Based on fields usage Django Eraserhead suggests optimizations for each queryset.


TODO
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* decorator and/or context processor for partial stats collecting
* detect deferred fields loading
* auto deferring fields based on usage
* display deferred fields

Running Tests
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::

source <YOURVIRTUALENV>/bin/activate
(myenv) $ pip install tox
(myenv) $ tox

Credits
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Tools used in rendering this package:

* Cookiecutter_
* `cookiecutter-djangopackage`_

.. _Cookiecutter: https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter
.. _`cookiecutter-djangopackage`: https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-djangopackage

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