Re: defining an app stub using AppConfig?

Collin Anderson <cmawebsite@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Eric,
>
> I'm not sure, but is this what you want?
>
> models = apps.get_app_config(setting.NEWSLETTER_APP).models_module
>
> Collin

Thanks Collin. I think that would do what I want, but in the end I
decided the easier way to go would be to fork the app, then experiment
with switching code in the app itself, rather than switching apps in my
Django project. Whether or not that will actually turn out to be simpler...

> On Tuesday, November 25, 2014 1:50:40 AM UTC-5, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>
> I'm messing around with testing many Github forks of the emencia
> newsletter app, looking for one I like. In the meantime (and as
> I'm
> likely to continue switching around for a while), I'd like not to
> have
> to commit code that points at the different names of the different
> apps:
> they all have the same models and database structure, the only
> thing
> that changes is the top-level name of the module.
>
> I looked at the code for contrib/comments, and have some questions
> about
> using AppConfig.
>
> What I'd like to do is have a setting in settings.py that reads:
>
> NEWSLETTER_APP='maja_newsletter'
>
> Or what have you. This would change semi-regularly as I test.
>
> Then I'd have a top-level file called newslettermodule.py, with
> something like this in it:
>
> from django.conf import settings
> from django.apps import apps
>
> module = apps.get_app_config(settings.NEWSLETTER_APP.rpartition
> (".")[2]).module
>
>
> Here's where I'm having trouble. Is there any way that I can
> basically
> dump all the models from what would be module.models into this
> file?
> Playing with this in the shell, when I try to import actual models
> from
> module.models I get an "No module named module.models", even
> though
> eval'ing "module.models" directly gives me:
>
> <module 'maja_newsletter.models' from '/path/'>
>
> Clearly this is just a misunderstanding on my part about how
> Python
> modules work.
>
> Is there anything I can do? Looking at the code in
> contrib/comments I
> suspect not -- if there were, it would have been done there.
>
> Anyway, thanks for any light shed on how AppConfig can be used in
> this
> situation...
>
> Eric

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