Django 4 has replaced force_text with force_url

[Former user]

This breaks the mixin:

server_1  |     from django_datatables_view.base_datatable_view import BaseDatatableView
server_1  |   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/django_datatables_view/base_datatable_view.py", line 7, in <module>
server_1  |     from .mixins import JSONResponseView
server_1  |   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/django_datatables_view/mixins.py", line 8, in <module>
server_1  |     from django.utils.encoding import force_text  # Django 1.5 / python3
server_1  | ImportError: cannot import name 'force_text' from 'django.utils.encoding' (/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/django/utils/encoding.py)

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/ref/utils/#module-django.utils.encoding

[Erik Kalkoken]

Looks like this repo is no longer maintained. Does anyone know of a fork that has this fix?

[ogawa-k]

I switched to this.

https://pypi.org/project/dj-datatables-view/

[Erik Kalkoken]

Thanks a lot for the info. That was exactly what I was looking for.

[Ronny Vedrilla]

@ogawa-k I got some improvements merged, maybe you want to include them in your repo?

[Ronny Vedrilla]

I pushed a PR and assigned @Maciej Wisniowski - my google research showed that force_str would be the appropriate replacement.

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[Ronny Vedrilla]

@Maciej Wisniowski Could you maybe release a new version when this is merged?

[Maciej Wisniowski]

This is fixed in 1.20.0

[Maciej Wisniowski]

@Ronny Vedrilla I have released 1.20.0 today and it fixes that. Thanks for your help!

[Ronny Vedrilla]

@Maciej Wisniowski Awesome! Thx so much ❤