Adds automatic slug generation per ajax to posts add

fet2020/posts/forms.py

@@ -6,9 +6,11 @@ from .models import Post
 class MyPostForm(forms.ModelForm):
     class Meta:
         model = Post
-        fields = ['title','subtitle', 'image','body','slug','author']
+        fields = ['title','subtitle','tags', 'image','body','slug','author']
        
-        widgets = {'body': CKEditorUploadingWidget(config_name='default')
-           
-        }
-        
+        widgets = {'body': CKEditorUploadingWidget(config_name='default')}
+
+    class Media:
+        js = (
+            'js/auto_slug.js',   # inside app static folder
+        )

fet2020/posts/urls.py

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 from django.urls import path
 from . import views
 urlpatterns=[
+    path('func/slug_calc', views.slug_calc),
     path('t/<str:tag>',views.tags,name='posts.tags'),
     path('',views.index,name='posts.index'),
     path('<str:id>',views.show, name='posts.show'),
-    
-]
+]

fet2020/posts/views.py

@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ from rest_framework import permissions
 from django_filters.rest_framework import DjangoFilterBackend
 from django.core.cache import cache
 
+from django.utils.text import slugify
+from django.utils import timezone
+
 def get_next_dict():
     posts=Post.news_objects.order_by('-public_date').values('slug')
     print(posts)
@@ -41,6 +44,21 @@ def show(request,id=None):
         p=Post.objects.get(slug=(id))
     return render(request, 'posts/show.html', {"post":p,"next":get_next_dict().get(p.slug,None)})
 
+# Ajax function that is called to calculate a slug from the title
+def slug_calc(request):
+
+    if request.method == "GET":
+        get = request.GET.copy()
+        title = get['title']
+
+        datetime_now = timezone.now()
+        date_str = datetime_now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
+
+        slug_str = slugify(date_str)+"-"+slugify(title)
+
+        return HttpResponse(slug_str)
+
+    return HttpResponseServerError("Requires a title field.")
 
 class PostViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
     """
@@ -53,4 +71,4 @@ class PostViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
     filterset_fields = ['legacy_id', 'slug','legacy_rubrik_id']
     lookup_field='slug'
     def pre_save(self, obj):
-        obj.image = self.request.FILES.get('image')
+        obj.image = self.request.FILES.get('image')