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Generic Ratings in Django

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A generic ratings module. The field itself appends two additional fields on the model, for optimization reasons. It adds <field>_score, and <field>_votes fields, which are both integer fields.

Installation

You will need to add djangoratings to your INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'djangoratings',
)

Finally, run python manage.py syncdb in your application’s directory to create the tables.

Setup your models

The way django-ratings is built requires you to attach a RatingField to your models. This field will create two columns, a votes column, and a score column. They will both be prefixed with your field name:

from djangoratings.fields import RatingField

class MyModel(models.Model):
    rating = RatingField(range=5) # 5 possible rating values, 1-5

Alternatively you could do something like:

from djangoratings.fields import AnonymousRatingField

class MyModel(models.Model):
    rating = AnonymousRatingField(range=10)

If you’d like to use the built-in weighting methods, to make it appear more difficult for an object to obtain a higher rating, you can use the weight kwarg:

class MyModel(models.Model):
    rating = RatingField(range=10, weight=10)

RatingField allows the following options:

  • range = 2 - The range in which values are accepted. For example, a range of 2, says there are 2 possible vote scores.

  • can_change_vote = False - Allow the modification of votes that have already been made.

  • allow_delete = False - Allow the deletion of existent votes. Works only if can_change_vote = True

  • allow_anonymous = False - Whether to allow anonymous votes.

  • use_cookies = False - Use COOKIES to authenticate user votes. Works only if allow_anonymous = True.

Using the model API

And adding votes is also simple:

myinstance.rating.add(score=1, user=request.user, ip_address=request.META['REMOTE_ADDR'], request.COOKIES) # last param is optional - only if you use COOKIES-auth

Retrieving votes is just as easy:

myinstance.rating.get_rating_for_user(request.user, request.META['REMOTE_ADDR'], request.COOKIES) # last param is optional - only if you use COOKIES-auth

New You’re also able to delete existent votes (if deletion enabled):

myinstance.rating.delete(request.user, request.META['REMOTE_ADDR'], request.COOKIES) # last param is optional - only if you use COOKIES-auth

Accessing information about the rating of an object is also easy:

# these do not hit the database
myinstance.rating.votes
myinstance.rating.score

How you can order by top-rated using an algorithm (example from Nibbits.com source):

# In this example, ``rating`` is the attribute name for your ``RatingField``
qs = qs.extra(select={
    'rating': '((100/%s*rating_score/(rating_votes+%s))+100)/2' % (MyModel.rating.range, MyModel.rating.weight)
})
qs = qs.order_by('-rating')

Get overall rating for your instance on a scale [0-range]:

myinstance.rating.get_rating()

Get recent ratings for your instance:

# This returns ``Vote`` instances.
myinstance.rating.get_ratings()[0:5]

Get the percent of voters approval:

myinstance.rating.get_percent()

Get that same percentage, but excluding your weight:

myinstance.rating.get_real_percent()

Generic Views: Processing Votes

The best way to use the generic views is by extending it, or calling it within your own code:

from djangoratings.views import AddRatingFromModel

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'rate-my-post/(?P<object_id>\d+)/(?P<score>\d+)/', AddRatingFromModel(), {
        'app_label': 'blogs',
        'model': 'post',
        'field_name': 'rating',
    }),
)

Another example, on Nibbits we use a basic API interface, and we simply call the AddRatingView within our own view:

from djangoratings.views import AddRatingView

# For the sake of this actually looking like documentation:
params = {
    'content_type_id': 23,
    'object_id': 34,
    'field_name': 'ratings', # this should match the field name defined in your model
    'score': 1, # the score value they're sending
}
response = AddRatingView()(request, **params)
if response.status_code == 200:
    if response.content == 'Vote recorded.':
        request.user.add_xp(settings.XP_BONUSES['submit-rating'])
    return {'message': response.content, 'score': params['score']}
return {'error': 9, 'message': response.content}

Limit Votes Per IP Address

New in 0.3.5: There is now a setting, RATINGS_VOTES_PER_IP, to limit the number of unique IPs per object/rating-field combination. This is useful if you have issues with users registering multiple accounts to vote on a single object:

RATINGS_VOTES_PER_IP = 3

Template Tags

Right now django-ratings has limited support for template tags, and only for Django.

rating_by_request

Retrieves the Vote cast by a user on a particular object and stores it in a context variable. If the user has not voted, the context variable will be 0:

{% rating_by_request request on instance.field as vote %}

If you are using Coffin, a better approach might be:

{% with instance.field_name.get_rating_for_user(request.user, request.META['REMOTE_ADDR'], request.COOKIES) as vote %}
        Do some magic with {{ vote }}
{% endwith %}

To use the request context variable you will need to add django.core.context_processors.request to the TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS setting.

rating_by_user

It is recommended that you use rating_by_request as you will gain full support for anonymous users if they are enabled

Retrieves the Vote cast by a user on a particular object and stores it in a context variable. If the user has not voted, the context variable will be 0:

{% rating_by_user user on instance.field as vote %}

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