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Experiment-11

Develop example Django app that performs CSV and PDF generation for any models
created in previous laboratory component.

Step-01: This app will be created in the Django project we made earlier.

Step-02: Add the app to INSTALLED_APPS

Open the settings.py file in your project's directory (e.g., fullstack_project/settings.py).

Locate the INSTALLED_APPS list and add the name of your new app to the list:

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Step-03: Create models

• Open the models.py file inside the student_course_registration_app and define your
models:

from django.db import models

class Book(models.Model):

title = models.CharField(max_length=200)

author = models.CharField(max_length=200)

publication_date = models.DateField()

def __str__(self):

return self.title

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Step-04: Create a views.py file in your books app and define the views for generating CSV
and PDF files

import csv

from django.http import HttpResponse

from django.template.loader import get_template

from xhtml2pdf import pisa

from .models import Book

def export_books_csv(request):

response = HttpResponse(content_type='text/csv')

response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename="books.csv"'

writer = csv.writer(response)

writer.writerow(['Title', 'Author', 'Publication Date'])

books = Book.objects.all().values_list('title', 'author', 'publication_date')

for book in books:

writer.writerow(book)

return response

def export_books_pdf(request):

books = Book.objects.all()

template_path = 'book_list.html'

context = {'books': books}

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response = HttpResponse(content_type='application/pdf')

response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename="books.pdf"'

template = get_template(template_path)

html = template.render(context)

pisa_status = pisa.CreatePDF(

html, dest=response)

if pisa_status.err:

return HttpResponse('We had some errors <pre>' + html + '</pre>')

return response

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Step-04: In your books app, create a templates directory and an html file for rendering the
PDF:

books/

templates/

books/

book_list.html

book_list.html

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>

<title>Book List</title>

<style>

body {

font-family: Arial, sans-serif;

table {

border-collapse: collapse;

width: 100%;

th, td {

padding: 8px;

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text-align: left;

border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;

</style>

</head>

<body>

<h1>Book List</h1>

<table>

<thead>

<tr>

<th>Title</th>

<th>Author</th>

<th>Publication Date</th>

</tr>

</thead>

<tbody>

{% for book in books %}

<tr>

<td>{{ book.title }}</td>

<td>{{ book.author }}</td>

<td>{{ book.publication_date }}</td>

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</tr>

{% endfor %}

</tbody>

</table>

</body>

</html>

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Step-05: add the URL patterns and import Necessary Packages:

from django.urls import path

from books.views import export_books_csv, export_books_pdf

urlpatterns = [

path('books/export/csv/', export_books_csv, name='export_books_csv'),

path('books/export/pdf/', export_books_pdf, name='export_books_pdf'),

Step-06: Install the xhtml2pdf library for generating PDF files:

pip install xhtml2pdf

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Step-07: Create the book titles and author and publication date

Django Shell

• If you just want to create some sample data for testing or development purposes, you can
run the code in the Django shell as shown in the previous example. This is a quick and
easy way to create objects interactively.

Data Migration

• If you want to include the book data as part of your project's initial data setup, you can
create a data migration. Here's how you can do it

Run the following command to create a new data migration

python manage.py makemigrations books –empty

• This will create a new empty migration file in the books/migrations/ directory.
• Open the newly created migration file (e.g., books/migrations/0002_auto_<...>.py) and
add the code to create the book objects in the operations list of the Migration class.

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from django.db import migrations

def create_book_data(apps, schema_editor):

Book = apps.get_model('books', 'Book')

Book.objects.bulk_create([

Book(title='To Kill a Mockingbird', author='Harper Lee', publication_date='1960-07-11'),

Book(title='1984', author='George Orwell', publication_date='1949-06-08'),

Book(title='Pride and Prejudice', author='Jane Austen', publication_date='1813-01-28'),

Book(title='The Great Gatsby', author='F. Scott Fitzgerald', publication_date='1925-04-10'),

Book(title='The Catcher in the Rye', author='J.D. Salinger', publication_date='1951-07-16'),

])

class Migration(migrations.Migration):

dependencies = [

('books', '0001_initial'),

operations = [

migrations.RunPython(create_book_data),

Run the following command to apply the data migration

python manage.py migrate

• This will create the book objects in your database.

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Step-08: Custom Script

• If you need to create the book data programmatically (e.g., during deployment or as part
of a data import process), you can create a custom Python script and run it as needed.
• Create a new Python file (e.g., create_book_data.py) in your project's root directory, and
add the code to create the book objects:

import os

os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'fullstack_project.settings')

import django

django.setup()

from books.models import Book

Book.objects.bulk_create([

Book(title='To Kill a Mockingbird', author='Harper Lee', publication_date='1960-07-11'),

Book(title='1984', author='George Orwell', publication_date='1949-06-08'),

Book(title='Pride and Prejudice', author='Jane Austen', publication_date='1813-01-28'),

Book(title='The Great Gatsby', author='F. Scott Fitzgerald', publication_date='1925-04-


10'),

Book(title='The Catcher in the Rye', author='J.D. Salinger', publication_date='1951-07-


16'),

])

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Run the script using the following command:

python create_book_data.py

Step-09: Update project URLs

• Open the urls.py file inside your project and include the URLs from the book app:

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Step-09: Run the development server

• In the VS Code terminal, navigate to your Django project's directory (the one containing
manage.py).
• Run the development server

python manage.py runserver

• Open your web browser and visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/.

• Type or copy this http://127.0.0.1:8000/books/export/csv/

Final Output By Clicking Register Project and Register Student

Fig: CSV File Download Screen

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• Type or copy this http://127.0.0.1:8000/books/export/pdf/

Fig: PDF File Download Screen

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