Update Django Framework from 2.2.27 to 4.2 LTS

[chris-bateman]

How did you install WebODM (docker, installer, etc.)?

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What's your browser and operating system? (Copy/paste the output of https://www.whatismybrowser.com/)

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What is the problem?

Django framework is EOL. WebODM uses 2.2.27 and the current LTS is 4.2
Placeholder issue to begin discussion on upgrading the framework.

How can we reproduce this? (What steps trigger the problem? What parameters are you using for processing? Include screenshots. If you are having issues processing a dataset, you must include a copy of your dataset uploaded on Dropbox, Google Drive or https://dronedb.app)

Review Django version here -

WebODM/requirements.txt

Line 7 in 8150b82

Django==2.2.27

4.2 LTS makes sense support-wise, but v5 is also out.

[chris-bateman]

EOL notes - https://www.djangoproject.com/download/ and https://endoflife.date/django

[Saijin-Naib]

Do you know of any gotchas? API breaks?

Keeping current on supported dependencies would be wonderful.

[chris-bateman]

So this doco covers the process - https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/howto/upgrade-version/

Example incompatible notes - https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/releases/4.2/#backwards-incompatible-changes-in-4-2

And a good list here as well - https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/internals/deprecation/

[chris-bateman]

I started to make a little progress on this. I am playing dependency wack a mole.
So with that in mind it might be time to audit the current modules located in this file -
https://github.com/OpenDroneMap/WebODM/blob/master/requirements.txt

The main focus is identifying packages that are deprecated/abandoned with no clear support from their maintainer/community.
Some have suitable alternatives noted in their doco but others will require some research to find a suitable replacement.

django-guardian

rfc3987 - Github repo was archived on the 12th Jan 2024 but moved to a new repo recently.
https://codeberg.org/atufi/rfc3987/

djangorestframework-jwt - Github archived
Alternatives - jpadilla/django-rest-framework-jwt#484

itypes - Github archived

django-rest-framework-guardian

strict-rfc3339

openapi-codec - Github archived

django-codemirror2 - After 7 years of no activity has had a few updates this year.

piexif

appdirs - Deprecated

[smathermather]

This is great Chris. Anything you need to help, e.g. identifying alternatives? I would say, for anything that has a known upgrade path, feel free to upgrade and test, and send me a relevant repo to review and I'm happy to run in production on my end and help find any issues.