* Introduced [un]set_installed_apps to handle changes to the
INSTALLED_APPS setting.
* Refactored [un]set_available_apps to share its implementation
with [un]set_installed_apps.
* Implemented a receiver to clear some app-related caches.
* Removed test_missing_app as it is basically impossible to reproduce
this situation with public methods of the new app cache.
It was not used inside Django, is not tested or documented. Consequently
remove without deprecation path.
Thanks to @vajrasky for bringing it to our attention.
Currently such overrides aren't reflected in the app cache.
It would be possible to handle them. But that doesn't look like a very
good API. It makes it complicated to express "add this app" and "remove
this app", which are the most common operations on INSTALLED_APPS.
- Tested consistency the current app_configs instead of INSTALLED_APPS.
- Considered applications added with _with_app as available.
- Added docstrings.
Took this opportunity to change get_app[s] to only consider applications
containing a model module as that seems slightly more backwards compatible.
Since callers that care about models pass only_with_models_module=True,
this has very few consequences. Only AppCommand needed a change.
Adjusted several tests that used it to add apps to the app cache and
then attempted to remove them by manipulating attributes directly.
Also renamed invalid_models to invalid_models_tests to avoid clashing
application labels between the outer and the inner invalid_models
applications.
It was called _populate() before I renamed it to populate(). Since it
has been superseded by populate_models() there's no reason to keep it.
Removed the can_postpone argument of load_app() as it was only used by
populate(). It's a private API and there's no replacement. Simplified
load_app() accordingly. Then new version behaves exactly like the old
one even though it's much shorter.
First stage imports app modules. It doesn't catch import errors. This
matches the previous behavior and keeps the code simple.
Second stage import models modules. It catches import errors and retries
them after walking through the entire list once. This matches the
previous behavior and seems useful.
populate_models() is intended to be equivalent to populate(). It isn't
wired yet. That is coming in the next commit.
Since applications that aren't installed no longer have an application
configuration, it is now always True in practice.
Provided an abstraction to temporarily add or remove applications as
several tests messed with app_config.installed to achieve this effect.
For now this API is _-prefixed because it looks dangerous.
Got rid of AppConfig._stub. As a side effect, app_cache.app_configs now
only contains entries for applications that are in INSTALLED_APPS, which
is a good thing and will allow dramatic simplifications (which I will
perform in the next commit). That required adjusting all methods that
iterate on app_configs without checking the "installed" flag, hence the
large changes in get_model[s].
Introduced AppCache.all_models to store models:
- while the app cache is being populated and a suitable app config
object to register models isn't available yet;
- for applications that aren't in INSTALLED_APPS since they don't have
an app config any longer.
Replaced get_model(seed_cache=False) by registered_model() which can be
kept simple and safe to call at any time, and removed the seed_cache
argument to get_model[s]. There's no replacement for that private API.
Allowed non-master app caches to go through populate() as it is now
safe to do so. They were introduced in 1.7 so backwards compatibility
isn't a concern as long as the migrations framework keeps working.
Alex Gaynor
Jonas Gastal
Aymeric Augustin
Claude Paroz
Marc Tamlyn
Alexey Voronov