For those confused about namespaces, I have tried to expand and clarify the documentation: https://github.com/django/django/pull/3092
Please give it a read and add your questions there and I'll do my best to answer them (with the caveat that you could include me in those who found the topic confusing before I worked on this). On Wednesday, August 13, 2014 3:33:33 PM UTC-4, Tim Graham wrote: > > I looked into this today and couldn't see why you'd want to have a > different `app_name`. In fact doing so would conflict with the docs: "Every > instance of a single application will have the same application namespace. > For example, Django’s admin application has the somewhat predictable > application namespace of'admin'." > > You can deploy multiple instances of the admin site using > AdminSite(name='admin2') (this controls the "instance namespace"). This > works fine, but if you try to specify a different `app_name`, you'll get > broken behavior as described on the ticket. I've submitted a PR (linked > from the ticket) to remove it. > > On Friday, November 22, 2013 8:38:00 AM UTC-5, German Larrain wrote: >> >> I had the same confusion that you seem to have. There is a difference >> between application namespace and instance namespace. Because usually you >> only have one instance of each of the installed apps, you don't need to >> pass `current_app=mycoolappname_instanceX`. >> >> In the case of multiple admin instances, the application namespace (which >> is the argument `app_name` to the constructor of AdminSite, and the >> original topic of this post) will be 'admin' for all of them, thus the >> necessity to differentiate to which instance you wish to reverse a URL name >> by passing 'current_app' to the reverse function. Nonetheless, if none is >> given, the reverse will still work and will default to the first urlconf >> that matches the corresponding application namespace. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/a1502bcb-cff8-49ba-a15c-6d097d99625f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
