Django-Friendship

This application enables you to create and manage follows and bi-directional friendships between users. It features:

• Friendship request objects that can be accepted, rejected, canceled, or marked as viewed.
• Hooks to easily list all friend requests sent or received by a given user, filtered by the status of the request.
• Tags to include information about friendships and follows in your templates.
• Integration with AUTH_USER_MODEL.
• Validation to prevent common mistakes.
• Faster server response time through caching

Requirements

Django 1.4 since v0.9.0 (latest release supporting Django 1.3 is v0.8.3)

Installation

1. pip install django-friendship

2. add "friendship" to INSTALLED_APPS and run python manage.py migrate.

3. Use the friendship manager in your own views, or wire up the URLconf to include the builtin views:

   urlpatterns = [
       ...
       url(r'^friendship/', include('friendship.urls'))
       ...
   ]
   

Usage

django-friendship provides a free API that gives you several ways to create and manage friendship requests or follows in your views. Add the following at the top of your views.py:

from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from friendship.models import Friend, Follow

Getting Data about Friendships

• List all of a user's friends: Friend.objects.friends(request.user)
• List all unread friendship requests: Friend.objects.unread_requests(user=request.user)
• List all unrejected friendship requests: Friend.objects.unrejected_requests(user=request.user)
• Count of all unrejected friendship requests: Friend.objects.unrejected_request_count(user=request.user)
• List all rejected friendship requests: Friend.objects.rejected_requests(user=request.user)
• Count of all rejected friendship requests: Friend.objects.rejected_request_count(user=request.user)
• List of all sent friendship requests: Friend.objects.sent_requests(user=request.user)
• Test if two users are friends: Friend.objects.are_friends(request.user, other_user) == True

Getting Data about Follows

• List of a user's followers: Follow.objects.followers(request.user)
• List of who a user is following: Follow.objects.following(request.user)

Managing Friendships and Follows

• Create a friendship request:

  other_user = User.objects.get(pk=1)
  Friend.objects.add_friend(
      request.user,                               # The sender
      other_user,                                 # The recipient
      message='Hi! I would like to add you')      # This message is optional
  

• Let the user who received the request respond:

  from friendship.models import FriendshipRequest
  
  friend_request = FriendshipRequest.objects.get(pk=1)
  friend_request.accept()
  # or friend_request.reject()
  

• To remove the friendship relationship between request.user and other_user, do the following:

  Friend.objects.remove_friend(request.user, other_user)
  

• Make request.user a follower of other_user:

  Follow.objects.add_follower(request.user, other_user)
  

Templates

You can use django-friendship tags in your templates. First enter:

{% load friendshiptags %}

Then use any of the following:

{% friends request.user %}
{% followers request.user %}
{% following request.user %}
{% friend_requests request.user %}

Signals

django-friendship emits the following signals:

• friendship_request_created
• friendship_request_rejected
• friendship_request_canceled
• friendship_request_accepted
• friendship_removed
• follower_created
• following_created
• follower_removed
• following_removed

Contributing

Development takes place on GitHub. Bug reports, patches, and fixes are always welcome!