Built-In DD Examples

To help showcase functionality (and help with DD internal debugging/development), the DumpDie project has built-in example views. The following describes how to access them from a given Django project.

Note

These built-in example views are also a good way to test various Django DumpDie configuration settings, and see what configuration works best for your local setup.

  1. First, follow the installation instructions from the Quickstart page, to initially set up DD for your project.

  2. Update your site root urls to include the following:

    Warning

    For production deployment, you probably don’t want this url added to your project. It’s probably best to not commit this line to your repository, and to remove it before deployment in event that it is accidentally committed.

    These urls are meant for debugging and example output only.

    urlpatterns = [

    path('dd/', include('django_dump_die.urls')),
    ...
]

  3. Launch your project with the standard python manage.py runserver command.

  4. Open a new web browser to http://127.0.0.1:8000/dd/. You should see page output similar to below.

_images/dd_built-in_examples.png

  1. From here, click any of the links to view what the DD project looks like, for each given output grouping.

    For example:

    • "Simple" Type refers to very basic types, such as int, str, bool, and similar types.

    • "Intermediate" Type refers to DateTime and PathLib, and similar types.

    • "Complex" Type refers to lists, tuples, dicts, and similar types.