Re: defining an app stub using AppConfig?

Hi Eric,

I'm not sure, but is this what you want?

models = apps.get_app_config(setting.NEWSLETTER_APP).models_module

Collin

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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