mizan/backends/mizan-django/README.md

# mizan-django

Django backend adapter for the Mizan protocol. One decorator on a server
function. Typed React client generated. Invalidation automatic.

## Install

```bash
uv add "mizan[channels]"
# or with allauth integration:
uv add "mizan[channels,allauth]"
```

## Setup

```python
# settings.py
INSTALLED_APPS = ["mizan", "myapp", ...]

MIZAN_CACHE_SECRET   = "..."   # 32-byte HMAC signing key
MIZAN_CACHE_REDIS_URL = "redis://localhost:6379/0"
MIZAN_MWT_SECRET     = "..."   # MWT signing key (separate from cache + JWT)
```

```python
# urls.py
from django.urls import include, path

urlpatterns = [
    path("api/mizan/", include("mizan.urls")),
]
```

```python
# asgi.py — for WebSocket / Channels support
from django.core.asgi import get_asgi_application
from mizan import wrap_asgi

application = wrap_asgi(get_asgi_application())
```

## Define server functions

```python
# myapp/clients.py
from mizan.client import client
from mizan.setup import register
from pydantic import BaseModel


class EchoOutput(BaseModel):
    message: str


@client
def echo(request, text: str) -> EchoOutput:
    return EchoOutput(message=text)


register(echo, "echo")
```

Auto-discover `clients.py` modules from each Django app:

```python
# myapp/apps.py
from django.apps import AppConfig


class MyAppConfig(AppConfig):
    name = "myapp"

    def ready(self) -> None:
        from mizan.setup import mizan_clients
        mizan_clients("myapp")  # imports myapp/clients.py — triggers @client side effects
```

## `@client` parameters

```python
@client                              # plain RPC function
@client(context="global")            # singleton context — fetched once, SSR-hydrated
@client(context="user")              # named context — fetched per provider mount
@client(affects="user")              # mutation — invalidates the user context
@client(affects=user_profile)        # mutation — invalidates a specific function
@client(websocket=True)              # WebSocket transport (requires channels)
@client(auth=True)                   # requires authentication
@client(auth="staff")                # requires is_staff
@client(auth="superuser")            # requires is_superuser
@client(auth=lambda req: ...)        # custom predicate
@client(route="/profile/<id>/")      # view-path function (returns HttpResponse)
@client(rev=2)                       # cache revision (busts on bump)
```

## Forms

Django Forms become server functions + typed React hooks with Zod validation:

```python
from django import forms
from mizan.forms import mizanFormMixin, mizanFormMeta


class ContactForm(mizanFormMixin, forms.Form):
    mizan = mizanFormMeta(name="contact", title="Contact Us", submit_label="Send")

    name    = forms.CharField()
    email   = forms.EmailField()
    message = forms.CharField(widget=forms.Textarea)

    def on_submit_success(self, request):
        send_email(self.cleaned_data)
        return {"sent": True}
```

Auto-registers `contact.schema`, `contact.validate`, `contact.submit`. Frontend
gets `useContactForm()`.

## Channels

WebSocket-native RPC via a flag flip:

```python
from pydantic import BaseModel
from mizan.channels import ReactChannel


class ChatChannel(ReactChannel):
    class Params(BaseModel):
        room: str

    class DjangoMessage(BaseModel):
        text: str
        user: str

    def authorize(self, params):
        return self.user.is_authenticated

    def group(self, params):
        return f"chat_{params.room}"
```

Frontend gets `useChatChannel({ room })`.

## Generate the frontend

The codegen is the `mizan-generate` Rust binary (source at
`protocol/mizan-codegen/`; `protocol/mizan-generate/` is a thin npm
launcher that dispatches to the platform binary). From your frontend
project, point a `mizan.toml` at the Django backend and run the CLI:

```toml
# frontend/mizan.toml
output = "src/api"
targets = ["react"]

[source.django]
manage_path = "../backend/manage.py"
command = ["uv", "run", "python"]    # optional — defaults to ["python"]

[source.django.env]
PYTHONPATH = "../backend"
DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE = "myproject.settings"
```

```bash
mizan-generate --config mizan.toml
```

The codegen drives Django's management command (`export_mizan_ir`) under
the hood, parses the emitted KDL IR, then emits Stage 1 (typed
`callXxx`/`fetchXxx` over the runtime kernel) + Stage 2 (`<MizanContext>`
provider, per-context providers, `use{Hook}()` hooks) into `src/api/`.

```tsx
// app.tsx
import { MizanContext } from "./api"

export default function App({ children }) {
    return <MizanContext baseUrl="/api/mizan">{children}</MizanContext>
}
```

```tsx
// any component
import { useEcho, useCurrentUser } from "./api"

const echo = useEcho()
echo.mutate({ text: "hi" }).then(r => console.log(r.message))

const user = useCurrentUser()  // global context — auto-fetched, auto-refreshed on mutation
```

## Running tests

```bash
uv sync --extra dev --extra channels
uv run pytest
```

## Architecture

mizan-django is one of two reference backend adapters (the other is
`backends/mizan-fastapi`). Both implement the same Mizan protocol on top of
the shared `cores/mizan-python` core (`@client`, registry, MWT, HMAC cache
keys). See `docs/AFI_ARCHITECTURE.md`.