#12287: Application name must be unique in a project - silent sideeffect when
it's
not
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Reporter: Piotr Czachur <[email protected]> | Owner: nobody
Status: new | Milestone:
Component: Uncategorized | Version: SVN
Keywords: | Stage: Unreviewed
Has_patch: 0 |
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Guys,
1) django accepts multiple applications with the same name in
INSTALLED_APPS, but such thing has many unpleasant side effects, many are
silent until you really dig in.
Django code should check whether there are applications with the same name
(like "foo.auth", "bar.auth") in INSTALLED_APPS, and if they are found,
exception should be thrown: "Django doesn't support multiple applications
with the same name".
2) Why it isn't mentioned in documentation? It's should be written in
bold.
3) During the time I migrated to Django - which was 2 months ago - I
experienced many silent side effect when this "unique app name" constraint
was violated: for example, when running test for given application:
{{{
python manage.py test auth
}}}
Django will run tests only for 1st found application with "auth" name,
others are just quietly skipped. It's just wrong, I'd like to see
exception or tests should be run for all applications with "auth" name.
4) My conclusion is that all this kind of problems occured because Django
is not using python path for applications. I mean we put aplication path
"package.appname" in INSTALLED_APPS, but Django cares only about last path
component which is application name. Why Django refuses to use standard
python thing?
I put it all here to provide you better explanation of my point, but to be
precise I'll create separate tickets for docs, and tests.
Cheers!
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