Laravel's dd() equivalent in django

Question

I am new in Django and having a hard time figuring out how to print what an object have inside. I mean type and value of the variable with its members inside. Just like Lara

Answer 1

Actually Django does not provide this specialized function. So in order to get rid of this problem, I made a custom dd() type function and use this in all Django projects. Perhaps it can help someone.

Let's assume, we have a library folder named app_libs and in that folder we have a library file named dump.py. Like app_libs > dump.py:

from django.core import serializers
from collections.abc import Iterable
from django.db.models.query import QuerySet
from django.core.exceptions import ObjectDoesNotExist


def dd(request, data=''):
    try:
        scheme      = request.scheme
        server_name = request.META['SERVER_NAME']
        server_port = request.META['SERVER_PORT']
        remote_addr = request.META['REMOTE_ADDR']
        user_agent  = request.META['HTTP_USER_AGENT']
        path        = request.path
        method      = request.method
        session     = request.session
        cookies     = request.COOKIES

        get_data = {}
        for key, value in request.GET.lists():
            get_data[key] = value

        post_data = {}
        for key, value in request.POST.lists():
            post_data[key] = value

        files = {}
        for key, value in request.FILES.lists():
            files['name'] = request.FILES[key].name
            files['content_type'] = request.FILES[key].content_type
            files['size'] = request.FILES[key].size

        dump_data = ''
        query_data = ''
        executed_query = ''
        if data:
            if isinstance(data, Iterable):
                if isinstance(data, QuerySet):
                    executed_query = data.query
                    query_data = serializers.serialize('json', data)
                else:
                    dump_data = dict(data)
            else:
                query_data = serializers.serialize('json', [data])


        msg = f'''
            
                Scheme        : {scheme}

                Server Name   : {server_name}

                Server Port   : {server_port}

                Remote Address: {remote_addr}

                User Agent    : {user_agent}

                Path          : {path}

                Method        : {method}

                Session       : {session}

                Cookies       : {cookies}

                Get Data      : {get_data}

                Post Data     : {post_data}

                Files         : {files}

                Executed Query: 
{executed_query}

                Query Data    : 
{query_data}

                Dump Data     : 
{dump_data}

            
        '''

        return msg
    except ObjectDoesNotExist:
        return False

when you need to use this function, just call it like this in any views.py:

from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.shortcuts import render
from django.views import View

from app_libs.dump import dd
from .models import Products

class ProductView(View):
    def get(self, request):
        data = {}
        data['page_title'] = 'products'
        data['products'] = Products.objects.get_all_product()

        template = 'products/collections.html'

        dump_data = dd(request, data['products'])
        return HttpResponse(dump_data)

        # return render(request, template, data)

that's it.