Swingtime is a Django application similar to stripped down version of iCal for Mac OS X or Google Calendar. Swingtime provides an Event model that act as metadata container for one or more Occurrence objects, which describe specific start and end times.
Swingtime relies heavily upon both the datetime standard library package and the dateutil package, featuring direct support for the dateutil.rrule interface to create occurrences.
A fairly simple example:
>>> from datetime import *
>>> from swingtime import models as swingtime
>>> et = swingtime.EventType.objects.create(abbr='work', label='Work Related Events')
>>> evt = swingtime.Event.objects.create(
... title='New TPS Cover Sheet',
... description='Kiss off, Lumbergh!',
... event_type=et
... )
>>> evt.add_occurrences(datetime(2008,12,1,16), datetime(2008,12,1,16,15), count=5)
>>> for o in evt.occurrence_set.all():
... print o
...
TPM Report: 2008-12-01T16:00:00
TPM Report: 2008-12-02T16:00:00
TPM Report: 2008-12-03T16:00:00
TPM Report: 2008-12-04T16:00:00
TPM Report: 2008-12-05T16:00:00
A bit more elaborate example, using the the convenience function models.create_event():
>>> # pay day is the last Friday of the month at 5pm
>>> evt = swingtime.create_event(
... 'Pay day',
... ('pay', 'Payroll'), # alternate means to add EventType on the fly
... freq=rrule.MONTHLY,
... byweekday=rrule.FR(-1),
... until=datetime(2009,4,1),
... start_time=datetime(2008,12,25,17)
... )
>>> for o in evt.occurrence_set.all():
... print o
...
Pay day: 2008-12-26T17:00:00
Pay day: 2009-01-30T17:00:00
Pay day: 2009-02-27T17:00:00
Pay day: 2009-03-27T17:00:00
Swingtime has it’s settings module (conf/swingtime_settings.py) that simulates how each Django project’s setting.py file functions. You can overwrite any or all of the configuration parameters described in swingtime_settings by creating a file in your own project and referencing that file in your project settings using the name SWINGTIME_SETTINGS_MODULE.
For example, from the demo’s configuration:
SWINGTIME_SETTINGS_MODULE = 'demo.swingtime_settings'
Swingtime comes with its own demo project and application. The demo is themed as a Karate studio’s website and allows you see and interact with the Swingtime application.
A live demo can be found at http://swingtime.gorgeofeternalperil.com or run locally using the built-in Django development server.
Currently, Swingtime does not include any templates of its own. The demo project provides some sample templates to use as a guide or starting point.
Within the Swingtime demo is an app named karate, which defines the custom management command loaddemo. This command will pre-populate your initial database with some events and occurrences based upon the current date and time.
If you’ve checked out from directly from the trunk directory or exploded the latest version tarball, you run the demo from anywhere by changing to the demo directory and running:
$ python manage.py loaddemo
$ python manage.py runserver