Registrations#

To make iommi understand the specifics of your code base you can register various handlers and behaviors.

Django custom fields#

To tell iommi how to handle your custom fields you have these options:

  • register_factory: register behavior for everything at once

  • register_column_factory: specific to Column

  • register_filter_factory: specific to Filter

  • register_field_factory: specific to Field

You use the register_factory function to register your own factory. The simplest way is:

register_factory(
    TimeField,
    shortcut_name='time'
)

When iommi then sees a Django TimeField it will call the Column.time shortcut to create a column, Filter.time to create a Filter and Field.time to create a field.

If you need different behavior for the three classes you need to use the more specific registration functions.

You can also register None to tell iommi to just ignore the field type whenever it sees it.

For more advanced behavior you can pass a Shortcut instance or a callable that returns a shortcut. This is the iommi definition for booleans:

register_field_factory(
    BooleanField,
    factory=lambda model_field, **kwargs: (
        Shortcut(call_target__attribute='boolean')
        if not model_field.null
        else Shortcut(call_target__attribute='boolean_tristate')
    )
)

Rendering of your custom types in a table#

iommi renders bool, list, set, tuple, QuerySet and any type that has a __html__ method with special logic to make it look nice in a table. If you have a type where you can’t or don’t want to implement a __html__ method (or you want more complex rendering) you can plug into this system yourself with register_cell_formatter:

register_cell_formatter(MyType, lambda value, **_: f'hello {value}')

The callable you register gets the keyword arguments value, table, column and row.

The search fields of your Django models#

When searching for an object with Query we need to know which fields to use to find the object. This enables the advanced query language to be my_car_brand='toyota' instead of my_car_brand.pk=42 which is a lot nicer. iommi will automatically use a field called name if it exists and is unique. If you have other fields you want iommi to use to find objects you can register it like this:

register_search_fields(model=Album, search_fields=['year'], allow_non_unique=True)

On startup iommi registers just this one particular canonical name for you since you probably want it. Note also that you can use __ separated paths here if you have a one-to-one with another model where the name field exists.

Custom styles#

You can register your own styles with register_style. By default the style bootstrap is used. You can use it as the basis of your custom look and feel or start with the base style and work from there.