On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Adam "Cezar" Jenkins <[email protected] > wrote:
> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Venkatraman S <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 9:29 PM, Cezar Jenkins <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Right now I have a large project with an equally large API (done using >>> django rest framework). The current structure is something like this: >>> >>> api >>> |-----urls.py >>> |-----models.py >>> | >>> ----v1 >>> |-----views.py >>> |-----serializers.py >>> |-----permissions.py >>> |-----tests.py >>> >>> etc >>> >>> As you can guess, the views.py file is pretty big and I want to refactor >>> this out. Currently I have a few options in front of me, the one I'm >>> leaning towards is to put an 'api/v1' package into each app and use the api >>> app to tie all the urls together and hold views that don't fall into an app. >>> >> >> If the only pain point is the big views file, then why not just refactor >> that into multiple files under 'v1' itself - nothing is stopping you from >> doing that. >> > > That was one way I started refactoring, but ran into issues. Say I have a > destinations.py view file in the api, but I also have a destinations app. > In my views file I can't do 'from destinations.models import Destination' > cause the name conflicts. So I started having to name things > 'destinations_api.py' which seemed really dirty. > When I have to split views.py into multiple files, i generally suffix it with _views; so, in your case it would be destination_views.py . -V -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" 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-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAN7tdFTL8DhOb5kcXG5ODzcJAjsnxNFrr5Km06RF8eLp5DYpLw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
