API References

cms.api

Python APIs for creating CMS content. This is done in cms.api and not on the models and managers, because the direct API via models and managers is slightly counterintuitive for developers. Also the functions defined in this module do sanity checks on arguments.

Warning

None of the functions in this module does any security or permission checks. They verify their input values to be sane wherever possible, however permission checks should be implemented manually before calling any of these functions.

Warning

Due to potential circular dependency issues, it’s recommended to import the api in the functions that uses its function.

e.g. use:

def my_function():
    from cms.api import api_function
    api_function(...)

instead of:

from cms.api import api_function
def my_function():
    api_function(...)

Functions and constants

cms.api.VISIBILITY_ALL

Used for the limit_visibility_in_menu keyword argument to create_page(). Does not limit menu visibility.

cms.api.VISIBILITY_USERS

Used for the limit_visibility_in_menu keyword argument to create_page(). Limits menu visibility to authenticated users.

cms.api.VISIBILITY_ANONYMOUS

Used for the limit_visibility_in_menu keyword argument to create_page(). Limits menu visibility to anonymous (not authenticated) users.

cms.api.create_page(title, template, language, menu_title=None, slug=None, apphook=None, apphook_namespace=None, redirect=None, meta_description=None, created_by=’python-api’, parent=None, publication_date=None, publication_end_date=None, in_navigation=False, soft_root=False, reverse_id=None, navigation_extenders=None, published=False, site=None, login_required=False, limit_visibility_in_menu=VISIBILITY_ALL, position=”last-child”, overwrite_url=None, xframe_options=Page.X_FRAME_OPTIONS_INHERIT)

Creates a cms.models.Page instance and returns it. Also creates a cms.models.Title instance for the specified language.

cms.api.create_title(language, title, page, menu_title=None, slug=None, redirect=None, meta_description=None, parent=None, overwrite_url=None)

Creates a cms.models.Title instance and returns it.

cms.api.add_plugin(placeholder, plugin_type, language, position=’last-child’, target=None, \*data*)

Adds a plugin to a placeholder and returns it.

cms.api.create_page_user(created_by, user, can_add_page=True, can_change_page=True, can_delete_page=True, can_recover_page=True, can_add_pageuser=True, can_change_pageuser=True, can_delete_pageuser=True, can_add_pagepermission=True, can_change_pagepermission=True, can_delete_pagepermission=True, grant_all=False)

Creates a page user for the user provided and returns that page user.

cms.api.assign_user_to_page(page, user, grant_on=ACCESS_PAGE_AND_DESCENDANTS, can_add=False, can_change=False, can_delete=False, can_change_advanced_settings=False, can_publish=False, can_change_permissions=False, can_move_page=False, grant_all=False)

Assigns a user to a page and gives them some permissions. Returns the cms.models.PagePermission object that gets created.

cms.api.publish_page(page, user, language)

Publishes a page.

cms.api.publish_pages(include_unpublished=False, language=None, site=None)

Publishes multiple pages defined by parameters.

get_page_draft(page):

Returns the draft version of a page, regardless if the passed in page is a published version or a draft version.

copy_plugins_to_language(page, source_language, target_language, only_empty=True):

Copy the plugins to another language in the same page for all the page placeholders.

By default plugins are copied only if placeholder has no plugin for the target language; use only_empty=False to change this.

Warning

This function skips permissions checks

Example workflows

Create a page called 'My Page using the template 'my_template.html' and add a text plugin with the content 'hello world'. This is done in English:

from cms.api import create_page, add_plugin
page = create_page('My Page', 'my_template.html', 'en')
placeholder = page.placeholders.get(slot='body')
add_plugin(placeholder, 'TextPlugin', 'en', body='hello world')

cms.constants

cms.constants.TEMPLATE_INHERITANCE_MAGIC

The token used to identify when a user selects “inherit” as template for a page.

cms.constants.LEFT

Used as a position indicator in the toolbar.

cms.constants.RIGHT

Used as a position indicator in the toolbar.

cms.constants.REFRESH

Constant used by the toolbar.

cms.constants.EXPIRE_NOW

Constant of 0 (zero) used for cache control headers

cms.constants.MAX_EXPIRATION_TTL

Constant of 31536000 or 365 days in seconds used for cache control headers

cms.app_base

class cms.app_base.CMSApp

• _urls

  list of urlconfs: example: _urls = ["myapp.urls"]

• _menus

  list of menu classes: example: _menus = [MyAppMenu]

• name = None

  name of the apphook (required)

• app_name = None

  name of the app, this enables Django namespaces support (optional)

• app_config = None

  configuration model (optional)

• permissions = True

  if set to true, apphook inherits permissions from the current page

• exclude_permissions = []

  list of application names to exclude from inheriting CMS permissions

• get_configs()

  Returns all the apphook configuration instances.

• get_config(namespace)

  Returns the apphook configuration instance linked to the given namespace

• get_config_add_url()

  Returns the url to add a new apphook configuration instance (usually the model admin add view)

• get_menus(page, language, \*kwargs*)

  New in version 3.3: CMSApp.get_menus accepts page, language and generic keyword arguments: you can customize this function to return different list of menu classes according to the given arguments.

  Returns the menus for the apphook instance, selected according to the given arguments.

  By default it returns the menus assigned to _menus

  If no page and language are provided, this method must return all the menus used by this apphook. Example:

  if page and page.reverse_id == 'page1':
      return [Menu1]
  elif page and page.reverse_id == 'page2':
      return [Menu2]
  else:
      return [Menu1, Menu2]

  param page:	page the apphook is attached to
  param language:	current site language
  return:	list of menu classes

• get_urls(page, language, \*kwargs*)

  New in version 3.3.

  Returns the URL configurations for the apphook instance, selected according to the given arguments.

  By default it returns the urls assigned to _urls

  This method must return a non empty list of URL configurations, even if no arguments are passed.

  Parameters:	page – page the apphook is attached to language – current site language
  Returns:	list of strings representing URL configurations