On Sunday, January 3, 2016 at 2:40:03 PM UTC-8, Stephen McDonald wrote:
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> On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 4:01 AM, Adam Simon <add.si...@gmail.com
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>> Hi all,
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>> First, thank you so much Stephen; mezzanine is truly awesome! For one:
>> the django integration is way better than rival packages.
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> And to the core team and all the contributors - it's the result of effort
> from a lot of people :-)
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>> After reading various online materials, i came up with this general
>> procedure to customize and wanted to get comments on this way of doing
>> overrides:
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>> My use case is to make changes in views; for example, to change the login
>> message to "congratulations, you have signed on" and add last sign on time.
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>> 1. collect templates
>> 2. copy app, eg accounts, from github into my project
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>> question:
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>> should I rename the accounts package to something project specific?
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>> 4. make changes
>> 5. add to installed apps, if name change
>> 6 add to urls.py
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>> ...
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>> 7. happiness
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>> this may be a form of "forking."
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>> Does this seem sound?
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> People will tell you not to, but speaking personally, I've done this many
> times with a lot of open source libraries and it works fine. Sometimes the
> knobs you want to tweak just aren't there, and if maintainers added every
> knob requested, they'd end up with something unmaintainable.
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> But if you just want to override some views, you can create a new app
> (named accounts_extensions or something) that contains your own views, and
> point existing names of urlpatterns in your project's urls.py at them.
> There are also approaches to extending models in different ways, each with
> their own pros and cons - those are better covered in the Mezzanine and
> Django documentation.
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> In the end you should experiment with different approaches and see what
> works best for you.
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Of course, I truly appreciate everyone's efforts, including yours!
In that spirit, I would like a bit of deliberation for everyone googling
overriding mezzanine other than templates ...
Here is one minimal question:
What is the "best" way to override mezzanine/accounts/view.py - line 29 :
info(request, _("Successfully logged in")) in order to change the message?
Many thanks!
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