Core functionality

This page details the core classes and functions that Oscar uses. These aren’t specific to one particular app, but are used throughout Oscar.

Dynamic class loading

The key to Oscar’s flexibility is dynamically loading classes. This allows projects to provide their own versions of classes that extend and override the core functionality.

oscar.core.loading.get_class(module_label, classname, module_prefix='oscar.apps')[source]

Dynamically import a single class from the given module.

This is a simple wrapper around get_classes for the case of loading a single class.

Parameters
  • module_label (str) – Module label comprising the app label and the module name, separated by a dot. For example, ‘catalogue.forms’.

  • classname (str) – Name of the class to be imported.

Returns

The requested class object or None if it can’t be found

URL patterns and views

Oscar’s apps organise their URLs and associated views using a “OscarConfig” class instance. This works in a similar way to Django’s admin app, and allows Oscar projects to subclass and customised URLs and views.

class oscar.core.application.OscarConfig(app_name, app_module, namespace=None, **kwargs)[source]

Base Oscar app configuration.

This is subclassed by each app to provide a customisable container for its configuration, URL configurations, and permissions.

class oscar.core.application.OscarConfigMixin(app_name, app_module, namespace=None, **kwargs)[source]

Base Oscar app configuration mixin, used to extend django.apps.AppConfig to also provide URL configurations and permissions.

default_permissions = None

Default permission for any view not in permissions_map

get_permissions(url)[source]

Return a list of permissions for a given URL name

Parameters

url (str) – A URL name (e.g., basket.basket)

Returns

A list of permission strings.

Return type

list

get_url_decorator(pattern)[source]

Return the appropriate decorator for the view function with the passed URL name. Mainly used for access-protecting views.

It’s possible to specify:

  • no permissions necessary: use None

  • a set of permissions: use a list

  • two set of permissions (or): use a two-tuple of lists

See permissions_required decorator for details

get_urls()[source]

Return the URL patterns for this app.

hidable_feature_name = None

A name that allows the functionality within this app to be disabled

permissions_map = {}

Maps view names to lists of permissions. We expect tuples of lists as dictionary values. A list is a set of permissions that all need to be fulfilled (AND). Only one set of permissions has to be fulfilled (OR). If there’s only one set of permissions, as a shortcut, you can also just define one list.

post_process_urls(urlpatterns)[source]

Customise URL patterns.

This method allows decorators to be wrapped around an apps URL patterns.

By default, this only allows custom decorators to be specified, but you could override this method to do anything you want.

Parameters

urlpatterns (list) – A list of URL patterns

class oscar.core.application.OscarDashboardConfig(app_name, app_module, namespace=None, **kwargs)[source]

Prices

Oscar uses a custom price object for easier tax handling.

class oscar.core.prices.Price(currency, excl_tax, incl_tax=None, tax=None)[source]

Simple price class that encapsulates a price and its tax information

incl_tax

Price including taxes

Type

Decimal

excl_tax

Price excluding taxes

Type

Decimal

tax

Tax amount

Type

Decimal

is_tax_known

Whether tax is known

Type

bool

currency

3 character currency code

Type

str

Custom model fields

Oscar uses a few custom model fields.

class oscar.models.fields.Creator(field)[source]

A placeholder class that provides a way to set the attribute on the model.

class oscar.models.fields.ExtendedURLField(*args, **kwargs)[source]
class oscar.models.fields.NullCharField(*args, **kwargs)[source]

CharField that stores ‘’ as None and returns None as ‘’ Useful when using unique=True and forms. Implies null==blank==True.

Django’s CharField stores ‘’ as None, but does not return None as ‘’.

class oscar.models.fields.PositiveDecimalField(verbose_name=None, name=None, max_digits=None, decimal_places=None, **kwargs)[source]

A simple subclass of django.db.models.fields.DecimalField that restricts values to be non-negative.

class oscar.models.fields.UppercaseCharField(*args, **kwargs)[source]

A simple subclass of django.db.models.fields.CharField that restricts all text to be uppercase.

Form helpers

class oscar.forms.mixins.PhoneNumberMixin(*args, **kwargs)[source]

Validation mixin for forms with a phone numbers, and optionally a country.

It tries to validate the phone numbers, and on failure tries to validate them using a hint (the country provided), and treating it as a local number.

Specify which fields to treat as phone numbers by specifying them in phone_number_fields, a dictionary of fields names and default kwargs for instantiation of the field.