Simple proxy class to integrate Dutch 'postcode/huisnr' address verification in your Django application. This is done using the postcode.nl REST-API at https://api.postcode.nl. For documentation regarding API endpoints also check this url.
The API also provides an endpoint for information validation, enrichment and fraude risk check.
Beside this documentation, the complete documentation of this software is available at http://django-postcodepy-proxy.readthedocs.org.
Supported versions of Python and Django :
Py 2.7 | Py 3.4 | Py 3.5 | |
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Django 1.8 | YES | YES | YES |
Django 1.9 | YES | YES | YES |
$ pip install django-postcodepy-proxy
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Add 'postcodepy_proxy' to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this::
INSTALLED_APPS= ( ... 'postcodepy_proxy', )
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Add the config part for the proxy::
POSTCODEPY = { "AUTH" : { "API_ACCESS_KEY" : "<the key you got from postcode.nl>", "API_ACCESS_SECRET" : "<the secret you got from postcode.nl>", }, }
Derive a class from the PostcodepyProxyView class and implement your own logic like the 2 simple examples below for HTML and JSON rendering.
from django.shortcuts import render
# Create your views here.
from postcodepy_proxy.views import PostcodepyProxyView
from postcodepy import postcodepy
class PCDemoHTMLView(PostcodepyProxyView):
template_name = "postcodeproxy.html"
def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
rv = super(PCDemoHTMLView, self).get(request, *args, **kwargs)
return render(request, self.template_name, rv)
Most likely is that you want JSON rendering for XHR-io in your application. Implement exception-handling that suits your needs.
from django.http import HttpResponse
from postcodepy.postcodepy import PostcodeError
import json
class PCDemoJSONView(PostcodepyProxyView):
def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
rv = None
try:
rv = super(PCDemoJSONView, self).get(request, *args, **kwargs)
except PostcodeError, e:
# Pass the exceptioninformation as response data
rv = e.response_data
return HttpResponse( json.dumps(rv), content_type="application/json")
Use the SignalProxyView to integrate the Signal API in your application.
from postcodepy_proxy.views import SignalProxyView
from postcodepy_proxy.signalapi import SignalRequestData
from django.http import HttpResponse
from postcodepy.postcodepy import PostcodeError
import json
class PCSignalJSONView(SignalProxyView):
def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
"""
perform the Signal lookup via the API-call
"""
rv = None
try:
# Create a structure representing a valid signal-api-request,
# as specified at api.postcode.nl
sar = SignalRequestData(request.POST)()
if 'csrfmiddlewaretoken' in sar:
del sar['csrfmiddlewaretoken']
rv = super(PCSignalJSONView, self).get(request, sar=sar, **kwargs)
except PostcodeError, e:
# Pass the exceptioninformation as response data
rv = e.response_data
return HttpResponse(json.dumps(rv, indent=4), content_type="application/json")
# Postcode urls
url(r'^jsonpostcode/(?P<postcode>[\d]{4}[a-zA-Z]{2})/(?P<houseNumber>[\d]+)/$', views.PCDemoJSONView.as_view()),
url(r'^jsonpostcode/(?P<postcode>[\d]{4}[a-zA-Z]{2})/(?P<houseNumber>[\d]+)/(?P<houseNumberAddition>[A-Za-z]+)/$', views.PCDemoJSONView.as_view()),
# Signal urls
# signal.html with some form that enables you to post the information for the request via AJAX/JSON to
# the jsonsignal url and fetch the response
url(r'^signal/$', TemplateView.as_view(template_name="signal.html")),
url(r'^jsonsignal/$', views.PCSignalJSONView.as_view()),