Migrating from django-hitcount

The project has been built with the idea to make the migrations as smooth as possible. After installation of dj-hitcount, run the migrations command to make the appropriate changes to the database (see the models section in this list for specifics).

python manage.py migrate hitcount

You will also have to make some changes if you were using any one of the following:

• signals

  • delete_hit_count from hitcount.models has been moved to hitcount.signals.

    • The argument save_hitcount to the function delete_hit_count_handler (this process the signal delete_hit_count) is now keyword-only. The earlier design pattern was a case of boolean-trap.

• mixins

  • HitCountMixin from hitcount.models has been renamed as HitCountModelMixin and moved to hitcount.mixins.

  • HitCountMixin from hitcount.views has been renamed as HitCountViewMixin and moved to hitcount.mixins.

• models

  • BlackListIP renamed to BlockedIP.

  • BlackListUserAgent renamed to BlockedUserAgent.

  • The ip field for Hit model has been made optional. This hopefully makes the project GDPR compliant. Please open an issue if still isn’t.

    • To maintain backwards compatibility with django-hitcount, an additional setting HITCOUNT_USE_IP has been added.

• views

  • hitcount.views.update_hit_count_ajax that was to be removed in django-hitcount 1.2 has been removed. Use hitcount.views.HitCountJSONView instead.

  • hitcount.views._update_hit_count that was to be removed in django-hitcount 1.2 has been removed. Use hitcount.mixins.HitCountViewMixin.hit_count instead.

• removed additional dependency of django-etc.