I've thought about this but I'm not sure how. Is there a hook/signal that gets fired when all models have been loaded but ModelBase._prepare hasn't run?
Erik On 08.10.2008, at 16:38, Carl Meyer wrote: > > > > On Oct 8, 5:29 am, Erik Allik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm writing a content management framework which stores content in a >> tree of nodes. Nodes can be of different content types and I want to >> be able to add new content types by simply adding apps that provide >> models to INSTALLED_APPS. And I don't want these apps to be forced to >> be aware of the existence of my content framework. Anyway, apps >> normally define URLs/views for models, and that means I won't be able >> to pull these models into my own URL hierarchy. So for that reason I >> need to be able to override URLs of other apps' models. >> >> And here comes the problem I'm trying to solve: to be able to >> override >> a models URL, I still need to know which view/args/kwargs it maps to >> so I need to take the model's original URL, resolve it using the >> model's containing app's URLconf, and then dynamically create a URL >> pattern for the view/args/kwargs that the model's original URL >> resolved to. But, by the time my custom URL resolver kicks in, the >> ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES setting has already taken effect and there's >> no >> way to find out which view/args/kwargs a model maps to any more. > > You could abandon ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES and just monkeypatch these > other models' get_absolute_url methods yourself. Kind of ugly, but > much better than putting the ugly hack into your Django source tree. > > Carl > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
