#25127: document how to define models in multiple modules
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Reporter: keturn | Owner: nobody
Type: Uncategorized | Status: new
Component: Documentation | Version: 1.8
Severity: Normal | Keywords:
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Though recent versions of Django have taken steps to support the ability
have a number of models organized in a `models/` package instead of a
single `models.py` file, the Models documentation topic does not give
guidance on how to do this.
Searching the web for answers turns up a lot of 2009-era results, which I
believe are misleading when applied to current versions of Django.
There is a [https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/CookBookSplitModelsToFiles
cookbook entry] which looks at least halfway current.
Statements I've seen (which I think are now questionable) are:
* If your models are not in `models.py`, you have to explicitly set
`db_table` on each model.
* ...you have to explicitly set `app_label` on each model
* in `models.py` or `models/__init__.py` you have to `import *` from each
module where you define models
There's this statement in the
[https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/releases/1.7/#app-loading-refactor
Django 1.7 release notes]:
> Application labels are assigned correctly to models even when they’re
defined outside of models.py. You don’t have to set app_label explicitly
any more.
which makes me think all of those things may be obsolete. Are there any
constraints on where you define models now? If they're not in `models.py`,
what do you need to do to ensure they're loaded?
Documentation on the
[https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/applications/#initialization-
process app initilaization process] still says the app's `models` module
or package is loaded, so maybe that "you must `import *` in your
`models.py` or `models/__init__.py`" thing is still true?
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/25127>
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