Since it triggers imports, it shouldn't be done lightly.
This commit adds a public API for doing it explicitly, django.setup(),
and does it automatically when using manage.py and wsgi.py.
Returning None on errors required unpythonic error checking and was
inconsistent with get_app_config.
get_model was a private API until the previous commit, but given that it
was certainly used in third party software, the change is explained in
the release notes.
Applied the same change to get_registered_model, which is a new private
API introduced during the recent refactoring.
ContentTypes are only created for installed applications, and I could
make a case for not returning a model that isn't installed any more.
The check for stale ContentTypes in update_contenttypes doesn't use
model_class.
ModelSignal actually needs get_registered_model since the lookup happens
at import time. I took this opportunity to perform a small refactoring.
This removes the gap between the master app registry and ad-hoc app
registries created by the migration framework, specifically in terms
of behavior of the get_model[s] methods.
This commit contains a stealth feature that I'd rather not describe.
The last component of the dotted path to the application module is
consistently referenced as the application "label". For instance it's
AppConfig.label. appname could be confused with AppConfig.name, which is
the full dotted path.
* 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.
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.
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.
Aymeric Augustin
Claude Paroz
ijl
Ramiro Morales
Preston Timmons
Levi Gross
Alex Gaynor