Closed fgomez828 closed 10 months ago
I think this is a great idea !!
A lot of good suggestions here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/6777376
I tried django-extensions
with pyparsing
/ pydot
over in Metro Councilmatic. The resulting diagram is still a bit of a mess, but it does represent an improvement over DBeaver, and I think it could suit our needs for less complicated apps. (OCD is just hypernormalized, making it a unique challenge.)
gonna close for now, please feel free to reopen this if anybody is interested.
Background
Several of our long-standing projects, including django-councilmatic and its instances, have complex model relationships. This makes it exceptionally tricky to onboard contributors and requires contributors to spend a significant amount of time re-orienting themselves to model relationships.
It would be helpful to have a Django plugin or some other tool that would allow us to create a diagram based off of the existing tables in a database. Tools like dbeaver do the mapping piece of this, but having a Django tool might be preferable if it is easier to use.
Proposal
Main question to answer: Are there any tools that would allow us to quickly and easily visualize model relationships based on existing database tables?
Tasks:
Deliverables
Artifacts will include:
Timeline
I believe this would take one or two full investment days. This would include time to do some preliminary research (3 hours), identify 2-3 tools to try (1 hour), try out 2-3 tools (5 hours), and write up a recommendation for one of the tools (2 hours) (estimated total: 11 hours).
This may take more or less time if there is a dearth of information about model-mapping tools or if one or more of the tools take much more or less time than expected to try out.