Use httpie to play with your APIs

Got tired of using curl. I switched to httpie.

1. Install
$ pip3 install httpie

2. I use jwt
$ pip3 install -U httpie-jwt-auth

3. First get token
$ http POST :8001/api-token-auth/ 'username=admin' 'password=abc123'

4. Now set env variables
$ export JWT_AUTH_TOKEN=your_token
$ export JWT_AUTH_PREFIX=JWT

5. Now do whatever
$ http --auth-type=jwt :8001/users/

6. If this error is encountered...
SSLError(SSLError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed

Use --verify=no as in...

$ http --verify=no POST ...

Django LDAP Logging

Got from here

Add in settings.py

import logging, logging.handlers
logfile = "/tmp/django-ldap-debug.log"
my_logger = logging.getLogger('django_auth_ldap')
my_logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
handler = logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler(
   logfile, maxBytes=1024 * 500, backupCount=5)
formatter = logging.Formatter('%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s')
handler.setFormatter(formatter)
my_logger.addHandler(handler)

Angular Starter Project with Material

Follow angular setup from this post.
Reference posts from here and here. And from a starter project.

1. Create angular project
$ ng new management-gui
$ cd management-gui

2. Get Angular Material
$ yarn add @angular/material @angular/animations @angular/cdk

3. Get HammerJs and add to .angular-cli.json
$ yarn add hammerjs
$ vi .angular-cli.json
"scripts": [
  "../node_modules/hammerjs/hammer.min.js"
],

4. Add Angular Material on to app.module.ts
$ vi src/app/app.module.ts
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { FormsModule } from '@angular/forms';
import { HttpModule } from '@angular/http';
import { MaterialModule } from '@angular/material';
import { BrowserAnimationsModule } from '@angular/platform-browser/animations';
import 'hammerjs';

import { AppComponent } from './app.component';

@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    AppComponent
  ],
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    FormsModule,
    HttpModule,
    MaterialModule,
    BrowserAnimationsModule
  ],
  providers: [],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

5. Set global styles.css with an Angular Material theme
$ vi src/styles.css
@import '~@angular/material/prebuilt-themes/indigo-pink.css';

6. Add Material icons in index.html
$ vi src/index.html

Django Development Production Settings

I choose the 2nd solution from this post

Dir structure:
[myapp]$ tree
.
├── __init__.py
├── settings
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── defaults.py
│   ├── development.py
│   ├── production.py
│   └── staging.py

### __init.py__
from myapp.settings.development import *

### defaults.py
### sensible choices for default settings

### dev.py
from myapp.settings.defaults import *
DEBUG = True
### other development-specific stuff

### production.py
from myapp.settings.defaults import *
DEBUG = False
### other production-specific stuff

### staging.py
from myapp.settings.defaults import *
DEBUG = True
### other staging-specific stuff