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Cloud Spanner support for Django
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ORM plugin for using Cloud Spanner as a `database backend
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This package provides a `3rd-party database backend
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<https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/ref/databases/#using-a-3rd-party-database-backend>`__
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for Django.
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for using `Cloud Spanner <https://cloud.google.com/spanner>`__ with the `Django
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ORM <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/topics/db/>`__. It uses the `Cloud
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Spanner Python client library <https://github.com/googleapis/python-spanner>`__
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under the hood.
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How it works
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Installation
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Overall design
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To use this library, you'll need a Google Cloud Platform project with the Cloud
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Spanner API enabled. For details on enabling the API and authenticating with
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GCP, see the `Cloud Spanner Python client library quickstart guide
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<https://github.com/googleapis/python-spanner/#quick-start>`__.
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.. figure:: ./assets/overview.png
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:alt:
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Supported versions
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At the moment, this library only supports `Django 2.2
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<https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/>`__. It also requires Python version
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3.6 or later.
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.. figure:: ./assets/internals.png
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This package follows a common versioning convention for Django plugins: the
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major and minor version components of this package should match the installed
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version of Django. That is, ``django-google-spanner~=2.2`` works with
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``Django~=2.2``.
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Installation
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Using this library requires a Google Cloud Platform project with the Cloud
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Spanner API enabled. See the Spanner Python client `documentation
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<https://github.com/googleapis/python-spanner/#quick-start>`__ for details.
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The version of ``django-google-spanner`` must correspond to your version
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of Django. For example, ``django-google-spanner`` 2.2.x works with Django
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2.2.y (Note: this is the only supported version at this time).
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The minor release numbers of Django may not correspond to the minor release
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numbers of ``django-google-spanner``. Use the latest minor release of each.
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Installing the package
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Creating a Cloud Spanner instance and database
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If you don't already have a Cloud Spanner database, or want to start from
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scratch for a new Django application, you can `create a new instance
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<https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/getting-started/python#create_an_instance>`__
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and `database
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<https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/getting-started/python#create_a_database>`__
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using the Google Cloud SDK:
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.. code:: shell
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gcloud spanner instances create $INSTANCE --config=regional-us-central1 --description="New Django Instance" --nodes=1
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gcloud spanner databases create $DB --instance $INSTANCE
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After `installation <#Installation>`__, you'll have to update your Django
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``settings.py`` file as follows.
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This package provides a Django application named ``django_spanner``. To use the
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Cloud Spanner database backend, the application needs to installed and
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- Add ``django_spanner`` as the very first entry in the ``INSTALLED_APPS``
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settings:
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- Add ``django_spanner`` as the first entry in ``INSTALLED_APPS``:
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- Edit the ``DATABASES`` settings to point to an EXISTING database, as shown in the following example:
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- Edit the ``DATABASES`` setting to point to an existing Cloud Spanner database:
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'default': {
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'PROJECT': '<GCP_project_id>',
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'INSTANCE': '<instance_id>',
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'NAME': '<database_name>',
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'PROJECT': '$PROJECT',
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'INSTANCE': '$INSTANCE',
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'NAME': '$DATABASE',
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How it works
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Overall design
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.. figure:: ./assets/overview.png
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:alt:
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DATABASES = {
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'default': {
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'ENGINE': 'django_spanner',
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'PROJECT': '<GCP_project_id>',
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'INSTANCE': '<instance_id>',
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'NAME': '<database_name>',
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'OPTIONS': {
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'credentials_uri': '<credentials_uri>',
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Executing a query
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