topic Re: Splunk 6.5 is not run django app? in Splunk Dev

Splunk 6.5 is not run django app?

geonspapa — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 06:50:59 GMT

I'm installed splunk enterprise 6.5.0.

and Test previous django tutorial app. but app is not run. (6.4.x is ok)

Can not I use Django?

Re: Splunk 6.5 is not run django app?

gjanders — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 22:07:57 GMT

I believe django is no longer available in Splunk 6.5, it has been deprecated since 6.3
However the official documentation for 6.5 deprecated features does not explicitly state this.

Note that various applications have been updated to remove django from them such as the Windows infrastructure app to be 6.5 compatible.

Re: Splunk 6.5 is not run django app?

glentes — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 14:04:47 GMT

We have some own application using django and tableview is not working anymore in 6.5.x
I still see no official statement from splunk regarding the django support / desupport in 6.5.x

Any additional information would be helpful.

Re: Splunk 6.5 is not run django app?

gjanders — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 23:57:34 GMT

As per my post "I believe django is no longer available in Splunk 6.5, it has been deprecated since 6.3"

Re: Splunk 6.5 is not run django app?

grossb — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 13:21:20 GMT

We just encountered this roadblock within our Django apps as well and I discovered some things I thought I'd share for the community. I agree with garethatiag, the documentation doesn't imply it's previous functionality isn't supported. The current release even (6.5.2 http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.5.2/ReleaseNotes/Deprecatedfeatures) in the release notes under "Previously deprecated features that still work" state:

"The Django Bindings feature of the Splunk Web Framework. For future development Splunk recommends that you use other features of the Splunk Web Framework, such as Simple XML extensions and HTML dashboards."

For us, our custom app relied heavily on the Django web framework. We use the Django template inheritance structure, django urls/views/templating system as well as the django template tags for search manager, input and other DOM (table, chart) elements.

For us, the upgrade to 6.5.2 rendered the table's output to an infinity "loading" state. The DOM loaded correctly with the inheritance and tags and the searches ran as evident by the jobs manager. Our issue was missing two javascript library links. Setting the appropriate include in our html for the following JS files resolved our loading issue:

Fixed rendering of charts elements:
/opt/splunk/share/splunk/search_mrsparkle/exposed/build/splunkjs_dj/3.3.js

Fixed rendering of table elements.
/opt/splunk/share/splunk/search_mrsparkle/exposed/build/splunkjs_dj/5.5.js
/opt/splunk/share/splunk/search_mrsparkle/exposed/build/splunkjs_dj/6.6.js

Re: Splunk 6.5 is not run django app?

glentes — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 07:45:42 GMT

Thank you grossb for the information.

By the way:
I just updated a test system to the new 6.5.3 version and the problem seems to be solved.